New Provisions on the Investigation of Electronic Data
Part 3 of RIPA 2000 is to be brought into force at last….
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Cybersecurity
House of Lords Report on Personal Internet Security
The Science and Technology Committee of the House of Lords published a report on 10 August. It includes a series of interesting conclusions and recommendations. Read a brief summary and comment and access the full report….
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Collecting Personal Information Using Web sites
Helen Hart summarises and comments on the latest ICO advice….
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Combatting Homographic Attacks on Domain Names
Your domain name and those of your clients could be at risk from a soundalike, lookalike, evil, Cyrillic twin. Carolyn Pepper, Emma Pitcher and Milan Joshi explain….
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‘Greater Force’ – or a Good Excuse for Non-performance?
Christoff Pienaar looks at force majeure and its effect on contracts. Bearing in mind that force majeure clauses inserted into outsourcing and IT services could seriously undermine a customer’s disaster recovery plans, the concept of ‘greater force’ needs to be very fully understood….
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Spam: managing a solution
You may have seen – or indeed, if you were unfortunate, have been involved in – a recent high profile attack on the legal profession, which took place via email and attempted to retrieve the banking details of those individuals targeted. James Turnbull outlines how the legal sector, like virtually every other industry, is now officially under attack from the scourge of the spammer….
Biometric Technology and Privacy Issues
Marcus Turle reviews the implications of the increasing adoption of biometric technology….
Management of Evidence in Child Pornography Trials
Jon Vogler shares his recent experiences and difficulties and suggests some important lessons that may be learned….
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Thomson Corporation Acquires Baker Robbins
The Thomson Corporation announced on 5 January the acquisition of Baker Robbins & Company, the provider of technology and information management consulting to law firms and law departments….
Predictions 2007
Each year we ask a selection of IT law and legal technology experts for their predictions for the coming year. These are the collected predictions. Those most recently added appear first in this format….