New Encryption guidance published by the ICO
Plain English Guidance aims to help organisations understand the benefits of encryption…
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Managing Data Breaches – Notification and Risk Management
In the last from our Tech Law Masterclass series, Nigel Miller provides a guide to the provisions of the GDPR that are most relevant when a data breach is believed to have occurred…
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The Regulated End of Internet Law, and the Return to Computer and Information Law?
It seemed unfair to hang on to this article from Professor Chris Marsden, another in our Tech Law Masterclass series for the October/November issue, when Internet regulation is such a hot topic. Chris looks back at the Internet’s legal history, with a view to helping us to move forward in an informed manner…
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How’s Business?
With a new initiative announced for the creation of the SCL Barometer, SCL Chair Mark O’Conor seeks input and engagement from SCL members to help make it an effective measure for trends in the tech industry and in the work of tech lawyers…
Hashing out the Implications of Smart Contracting under English Law
Rachel Lidgate and Charlie Morgan offer an in-depth look at smart contracts and the teasing challenges which they display…
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Poetry Corner – Negotiating Cloud Deals Advice
If Wordsworth was alive, he would no doubt have left Westminster Bridge and attended the SCL Conference. But, in his unavoidable absence, his muse descended on Holly Pearsall and she gave her flash talk at the Conference in verse. Here is her much discussed, and widely praised, poem in full. It needs to be read aloud to get full value….
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Singapore’s worst cyber attack to-date
Darren Grayson Chng, our Singapore Associate Editor, reports on the fall out from a hack of the non-medical data of 1.5 million patients….
Cloud and Other Digital Services Providers – Security & Incident Notification Obligations under the UK NIS Regulations, and GDPR comparison
Dr W Kuan Hon explains the impact of the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018…
NCSC Report on Threats to Legal Sector
The National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ, has published a report highlighting the threats to law firms and offering guidance on combating the threats…
Time to get Technical? Revolutionizing the (Deplorable?) System of Internet Governance
This entry to the SCL Student Essay Prize earned Viraj Ananth the runner-up spot. It is a challenging and original take on the set question, which concerned the relative importance of law and ISP action in enforcement on the Internet….