SCL Conference Report: IT Law Hot Topics 2012
Helen Hart reports on Tuesday’s SCL Annual Conference ‘IT Law Hot Topics 2012: The IT law you need for 2013’…
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Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Privacy’s Greatest Threat and How to Overcome It
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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SCL Policy Forum Report: Computer and Communications Law Reform
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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SCL Media Group Seminar Report: Intermediary Liability
Frania Cooper reports on the meeting of the SCL Media Group on 10 October which focused on intermediary liability…
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The Cloud and You – The Lawyer’s View
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….
Latest Monetary Penalty: Police Pay £120,000 for Breach
A police force has been required to pay a £120,000 penalty for data breach…
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Google’s Privacy Policy Latest
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….
Book Review – Data Protection Strategy: Implementing Data Protection Compliance
Laurence Eastham reviews the latest edition of this guide to data protection strategy…
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IT Budgets Survey Results
IT budgets are said to be flat due to post-recession ‘recovery’ spending…
Clouds over the EU
John Salmon explains that EU initiatives on cloud computing don’t really solve the problems with adoption by the financial services sector…