Data Breaches and Lawyers
The Information Commissioner ‘sounds the alarm’ on data breaches within the legal profession…
Intellectual Property
Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing – A Brief Introduction
Andelka M. Phillips provides a summary of her presentation at the SCL Technology Law Futures Forum. It is intended to provide a very brief introduction to the direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTC) industry and the issues it raises for the law. (Please note that this is part of research that is ongoing)….
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The Elusive Referendum Monster
Is there a referendum monster hidden deep in the Scottish lochs that will rear up and destroy IT law?…
British Gambling Regulation: Gambling Software
Stephen Ketteley and Chris Elliott offer an insight into an area of software regulation that few realised was on the cards….
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House of Lords Committee on Right to be Forgotten
According to the House of Lords Home Affairs, Health and Education EU Sub-Committee, the ‘right to be forgotten’ is unworkable, unreasonable and wrong in principle…
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US and European Convergence on Software and Business Method Patentability?
Mark Kenrick and Michael Williams consider two judgments of the US Supreme Court and ask whether the rules on software patentability that now apply in the USA are getting close to those that hold sway in Europe….
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A Series of Unlikely Events
One year on from the Scottish Borders Appeal, Paul Motion and Laura Irvine ask: has the ICO’s approach changed?…
SCL Event Report: Foundations of IT Law Programme – Module 5: Risk, Cyber-threat and Computer Misuse
Laura Bruin reports on the fifth module in SCL’s Foundation of IT Law, which took place on 2 July 2014…
CJEU Upholds Telefónica Fine
The Court of Justice of the European Union has dismissed the appeal of Telefónica and Telefónica de Espana against a fine of €152 million arising from it abuse of a dominant position on the Spanish broadband market…
Virtual Currencies and the European Banking Authority
Simon Deane-Johns reports on the recent opinion from the European Banking Authority on virtual currencies and highlights errors in their approach…
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