BYOD in Law Firms
Ian Wimbush asks how the trend towards BYOD is affecting law firms…
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Latest Data Protection Act Prosecution
A former manager of a health service based at a council-run leisure centre in Southampton has been prosecuted by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for unlawfully obtaining sensitive medical information relating to over 2,000 people. Paul Hedges took the information hoping to use the data for a new fitness company he was setting up. He…
Shocking: Unprepared
Spurred by the recent ICO survey of business awareness of the EU DP reform package, Laurence Eastham has an awful confession…
ICO Report: DP Reform Uncertainty
The Information Commissioner’s Office has released a report which highlights uncertainty on the implications and cost of EU data protection reform…
SCL Meeting Report: Cloud Computing
In the first SCL meeting in Dublin, held at Matheson, the topic was ‘Law and Regulation as we move to the Cloud’ John O’Connor reports on the event…
SCL Meeting Report: ‘AR Wars’ – Augmented Reality, Technology and the Law
Ashley Avery reports on the ‘hot topic’ seminar on augmented reality held on 24 April at Travers Smith LLP….
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Stale Cookies Given a Fresh Crunch
Is cookie compliance going to hamper innovation such as personalisation? In a forthcoming SCL meeting, worlds collide and the resulting compound could be gold for IT lawyers….
SCL Meeting Report: Exclusion and Limitation Clauses Master Class
Mark Crichard reports on the extremely popular Master Class seminar on exclusion and limitation clauses held on 18 April…
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Now is the Time to Say Goodbye
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….
Google Privacy Policy Enforcement
Six European data protection authorities are to launch coordinated and simultaneous enforcement actions in light of Google’s alleged breaches of data protection law…