The Supreme Court has given judgment in the long-running dispute concerning the use by various PR companies of links to coverage of their clients in newspapers and whether their use required a licence from the Newspaper Licensing Agency. The judgment is a bit of a damp squib, ending up with a reference to the CJEU….
With litigation and internal investigations always at least conceivable, and perhaps just round the corner, Caroline Jan considers ways to manage data risks so as to limit the damage caused by a sudden crisis…
Ruth Baker looks back on her time as SCL’s kingpin as she retires after 25 years with the Society. See the end of the article for a selection from some of the tributes paid to Ruth’s work for SCL. A pdf of the version of this article which appears in the April/May issue of Computers & Law can be downloaded from the panel opposite….
Alastair Morrison repeats his warning for those using Windows XP – still a substantial proportion of small law firm users….
The Office of Fair Trading has announced that it is to begin an investigation into free children’s web and app-based games. Includes comment from Jas Purewal and Vanessa Barnett….
The EU Commission has published one of two reports which provide pointers to good practices in e-procurement…
Read More… from Golden Book and Blueprints for EU e-Procurement
Susan Atkinson and Gabrielle Benefield analyse recent research and draw disturbing conclusions about the ‘Contract Model’…
The European data protection authorities have clarified the principle of ‘purpose limitation’…
Read More… from Article 29 Data Protection Working Party Opinion on Purpose Limitation
In the year of SCL’s 40th anniversary, Richard Susskind, now President of SCL, offers a personal recollection of his early days in SCL…
Read More… from Recollections of SCL in the 1980s and Early 1990s
Dr Benjamin Farrand asks: can you be greater than the sum of your parts? He considers just some of the socio-legal problems with Human Enhancement Technologies…
Read More… from Human Enhancement Technologies – Edging towards the Cyborg?