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Transferring data through model contracts: original clauses v alternative clauses

November 1, 2005

The regulatory limitations affecting international transfers of personal data have been a controversial issue since the early nineties. Even before the deadline for implementation of the 1995 Data Protection Directive kicked in, businesses across the European Union struggled to find a way to accommodate their normal data sharing and communication practices to the impending legislation….

IT SECURITY – What Every Technology Lawyer Needs to Know about IT Security

November 1, 2005

Kit Burden explains why IT security matters to technology lawyers or at least should matter. This article is based on his presentation to the Law Society of Scotland/SSCL Conference earlier this year…

Editorial

November 1, 2005

Claim CPD for reading Computers & Law From February next year you will be able to transform the time you spend reading Computers & Law into CPD. This new member benefit will be available with the launch of the revamped SCL Web site, scheduled for release at the end of January 2006. The CPD scheme…

SCL 5th Annual Conference: IT Project Procurement & Outsourcing

August 31, 2005

Full details are now available of the latest SCL Conference: IT Project Procurement & Outsourcing: The Successful Customer/Supplier Marriage….

Unfair Contract Terms Bill

August 31, 2005

Victoria Ford reviews the draft Bill on unfair contract terms. Will standard terms and conditions be worth the paper they are written on when the proposed new unfair contract terms legislation comes into force? The IT industry has had many brushes with UCTA over the years and is likely to be keenly affected by developments….

Insourcing – Reversing the Trend?

August 31, 2005

Kit Burden asks if the outsourcing charabanc has run out of fuel, and whether there are times when the best alternative might be found close to home….

Consumer Protection on Online Auction Sites: Just an Illusion?

August 31, 2005

Dr Christine Riefa examines the eBay phenomenon, its legal classification and the implications for consumer protection….

MVNOs and 3G – The Future of Resale?

August 31, 2005

Paul Foley and Davina Garrod consider the impact of a new breed, mobile virtual network operators, and their impact on the market. They also consider some of the legal issues to which transactions concerning them give rise….

Court of Appeal Cuts Back the Legal Protection for Databases

August 31, 2005

Sally Hui and Simon Stokes comment on the implications of the rulings in BHB v William Hill, the long running case which completed its final furlong in the Court of Appeal in July….

Low Down Dirty Clicks

June 30, 2005

Mike Conradi and Travers Symons look at the problems with click fraud, and ask when a ‘click’ is not a ‘click’….