Phil Lee makes his observations on the regulation of privacy and closes with a rallying call for technology-neutral, proportionate legislation that delivers meaningful data protection in practice….
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Jaani Riordan reports on the annual SCL Policy Forum which took place on 13 and 14 September at the offices of Herbert Smith, London. Podcasts of most of the presentations at the Forum are now available on the SCL web site….
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Frania Cooper reports on the meeting of the SCL Media Group on 10 October which focused on intermediary liability…
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Not everyone who talks about cloud computing seems to have grasped the basics but it is tough to assess the legal risks without a decent understanding. Lillian Pang aims to improve understanding of the cloud and the issues that arise from its use….
A police force has been required to pay a £120,000 penalty for data breach…
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The EU still does not like Google’s new privacy policy: ‘incomplete information and uncontrolled combination of data across services’. The CNIL has published its findings and the essence of the latest letter sent to Google….
Laurence Eastham reviews the latest edition of this guide to data protection strategy…
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IT budgets are said to be flat due to post-recession ‘recovery’ spending…
John Salmon explains that EU initiatives on cloud computing don’t really solve the problems with adoption by the financial services sector…
The ICO has published reports summarising the outcomes of audits carried out over the last two years…