Is the ICO Quietly Implementing the GDPR?
Laurence Eastham applauds the new ICO Code of Practice and wonders if the ICO is flying under the Brexit radar….
Laurence Eastham applauds the new ICO Code of Practice and wonders if the ICO is flying under the Brexit radar….
Darren Grayson Chng reports on the initial meeting of SCL Singapore. His article aims to provide a brief overview of the topics discussed, while going a little further into some of the intriguing points raised by the Chair and the panellists which are of universal application….
Case reports and clarity This issue of the magazine is dominated by case reports. Since recent issues have been overflowing, it was an opportunity to catch up with developments in the courts, especially judgments from the Court of Justice of the European Union. Since I had the pleasure of trawling through many of these judgments,…
In Cartier International AG & Ors v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 658 five English ISPs (Sky, BT, EE, TalkTalk and Virgin) were appealing against orders made in late 2014 which required them to block or attempt to block access by their customers to certain target websites which were advertising and selling counterfeit copies…
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This is a selection of cases that have been covered on the SCL website but have not been dealt with elsewhere in this issue or previous issues. Fuller coverage and links to full judgments are available on the SCL website as are reports of a handful of other 2016 cases which we have not found space to cover in print…
Dominic Wrench gives a brief report on the recent meeting of the SCL Junior Lawyers’ Group…
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Agnieszka Jablonowska considers the role of data in the digital economy, focusing on the input from the BEUC, the EDPS and the Article 29 Working Party on the review of the e-Privacy Directive…
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Pearse Ryan, Andrew Harbison and Anne O’Donovan guide you through recent changes to the PCI Digital Security Standard which reflect learning from large-scale hacking attempts…
The SCL Better Contracts Initiative is entering its second phase. SCL outlines progress to date and outlines the plans for further refinement…
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John McKinlay looks forward to a journey involving learning to code…