Oliver Neil reports and comments on a recent High Court judgment which provides further guidance on Facebook comments by employees and the limits of employer policies…
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Joel Smith and Christopher Sharp consider the recent Supreme Court decision concerning obtaining information about wrongdoers, particularly the use of Norwich Pharmacal relief and the balance to be struck with the data protection rights of individuals…
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In the welter of coverage of the Leveson Report, data protection issues have not been given much prominence but they will matter to SCL members….
When you get Charles Christian, Jan Durant, Andrew Haslam and Charles Holloway in one predictions posting, the combined weight of experience and perception threatens to imbalance the Internet. We decided to risk it….
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A recording of a recent SCL meeting…
Some thoughts on the UsedSoft case and its broader implications…
The European Network and Information Security Agency has compiled a report ‘The right to be forgotten – between expectations and practice’ which it published on 20 November….
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Ofcom has published the results of a large-scale consumer tracking study into the extent of online copyright infringement. It claims to reveal that nearly half of Internet users are unsure if content is legal and that one in six believe they are accessing some illegal content…
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At the SCL Forum in September, Graham Smith spoke about the regulation of the Internet and what he saw as the best way forward. This article is an edited version of the views expressed in that talk. These are his personal views, not attributable to his law firm or to any client. A series of articles arising from the Forum will be published in the New Year – this one is very much for now as Leveson looms and decisions on the Communications Bill and social media prosecutions are considered….
The High Court has ruled on a company’s claim which asserted a proprietary right in the content of e-mails held by its former CEO…