Evergreening Data Protection
David Chaplin, SCL Development Editor, reports on the South West Group’s really useful GDPR event held earlier this week….
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Discovery and Data Protection
The Irish High Court has confronted the question of whether a court should order a person to make discovery of documents that can be obtained by making a data subject protection request…
Grasping the Nettle: Tackling the Stinging Issues of Consent
Matthew Holman and Lewis Borg analyse some of the most pressing issues on consent under the GDPR and challenge the ICO to clarify some of its guidance…
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Age Verification Dangers
Following on from a widely welcomed presentation at SCL’s Sextech, Porn and the Law event in October, Pandora Blake offers a fuller analysis of the dangers and difficulties that come with the introduction of age verification in accordance with the Digital Economy Act 2017…
GDPR and the Obligation to Notify Infringing Instructions
Simon Lightman and Steven Farmer think that the ICO’s draft guidance leaves unanswered questions on a data processor’s obligation to notify infringing instructions…
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Blockchain and Identity: a Solution without a Problem?
Lorna Brazell wonders if some blockchain hype has things out of order…
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Legal Status of a Crypto Token
Leigh Sagar offers some thoughts, and handy definitions, relating to cryptocurrencies and a striking visualisation technique for grasping the concept of crypto tokens…
Data Protection: ICO Charges under the GDPR
Laurence Eastham worries about the ICO’s future funding and its capacity to do all that it might need to….
Cases Update October/November 2017
Note: This article was created for the printed magazine.
These are edited versions of some of the cases reported on the SCL site over recent months which are not covered by articles in this edition. Fuller reports are available on the SCL website….
‘A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting’ – take it 3 times a day and finish the course
Charles Drayson reviews the fourth edition of this well respected work and adds a few pithy observations on the state of IT contract drafting…