In, Out or Shake it All About? The Impact of the UK Opt-out from the Policing and Criminal Justice Data Protection Directive
Rosemary Jay identifies areas of complexity and various data protection conundrums arising from UK opt-outs…
Intellectual Property
Wearable Tech – A Passing Fashion?
Fad, fashion or durable? Sarah Pearce has fashioned an article that looks at the trend towards wearables…
Standard-essential Patents and Competition: CJEU Judgment
The Court of Justice of the European Union has made an important ruling in a case concerning patents in the telecoms sector that might have some implications in technology patent negotiations generally…
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Tokenisation
Amandeep Singh, Milan Joshi and Steve Clough explain tokenisation and how it fits into the payment ecosystem…
Book Review: Cloud Computing: A Practical Introduction to the Legal Issues
‘It’s amazing how they can transmit the internet through the clouds, isn’t it? What jurisdiction are they even in?’ I checked that my friend wasn’t in fact referring to Google’s Loon project or Facebook’s solar-powered drones (where these are pertinent questions[[http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/can-we-trust-google-with-the-stratosphere/278797/]]) and then offered to lend him this book: Renzo Marchini’s ‘Cloud Computing: A Practical…
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Data Retention: 35-year Retention Policy Upheld
The Administrative Court has ruled that a local authority’s policy of retaining child protection records for 35 years or more is lawful…
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SCL Event Report: International Management of Data Protection
Georgina Fraser reports on the meeting on 2 July hosted by Fox Williams LLP…
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SCL Event Report: Data Privacy and Online Journalism
Emma Cross reports from the SCL seminar hosted by Olswang LLP which asked ‘Has the DPA been stretched too far?’…
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What’s the Big Deal? Big Data in the Financial Services Sector
Jonny Emmanuel considers the big questions surrounding Big Data…
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SCL Event Report: Beginners’ Guide to the Digital Marketplace
David Egan reports on the first session hosted by the SCL Junior Lawyer’s Group, an event held at Bird & Bird on 22 June 2015….
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