Come on, Come on, Let’s Stick Together
David Halliday assesses the potential for the current environment to drive parties to existing IT procurement and outsourcing deals to reconsider their position – and where they might end up….
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Will Social Networking Services Survive Only at the Expense of Privacy?
This is the essay which won Philip Hutchinson the SCL Essay Prize 2009….
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ICO Ruling on Street View
As anticipated, the Information Commissioner’s Office has given Google’s Street View the all-clear….
Hurrah for the ICO
The ICO have gained some street cred in dealing with Street View. But does it get two cheers or three?…
Phorm: It All Hits the EC Phan
The European Commission announced on 14 April that it is to bring proceedings against the UK arising from trials of the Phorm behavioural advertising technology by UK ISPs….
Death of Phorm: Greatly Exaggerated
First thoughts on the European Commission’s Move to bring infringement proceedings…
Information Governance Issues
Laurence Eastham writes about the forthcoming SCL Information Governance Conference. The latest Conference, Managing Identity in a Digital World, is to be held on 12 May….
Web 2.0 and Online Reputation Monitoring
Shireen Smith tells us about online reputations: how to protect them and how to monitor them. She suggests that there may be a new role for lawyers here….
Regulating Technologies
On 30 March, in the first of a new series of lectures titled ‘New Law for a New World’ sponsored by SCL in collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor Roger Brownsword of King’s College, London, tackled the topic of the interaction between regulation and technology. Bill Jones reports on the event….
Open Source Software for Corporate Buyers
The uptake of, and interest in, open source-based software solutions is on the increase and this is reflected in the increasing number of articles on the topic in journals and the popular press. Callum Sinclair considers open source software from the perspective of the corporate buyer, reminding us of the basics and going on to explore some practical steps for managing the risks associated with a corporate customer’s adoption of this licensing model….