Qatari Data Privacy
Dino Wilkinson analyses the new draft privacy law published in Qatar…
Litigation & DR
SCL 6th Annual Policy Forum 2011: The New Shape of European Internet Regulation
Now firmly established as a leading event on the calendar for both IT law academics and IT law practitioners, the SCL Forum 2011 will grapple with Internet law reform. While a combination of blue-sky thinking and grounded, practical views sounds like a recipe for disaster, experience shows that it leads to a very special event….
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Privacy – An Evolving Challenge
Andrew Priest gives his thoughts on a talk by Stephen Deadman of the Vodafone Group at a meeting of the Thames Valley Group on 8 June….
India’s New Privacy Laws
Stephen Mathias analyses important new laws which have an impact on all businesses operating in or having connections with India….
SCL Conference 2011: Risk-free Risk and IT
The next SCL Conference, to be held on 14 and 15 October in Bath, focuses on risk and technology, but you are not at risk on one score: the Conference always offers guaranteed value….
CCTV and Privacy
The ICO has forced a CCTV web site Internet Eyes to make changes following privacy concerns…
Geo-location
Cynthia O’Donoghue and Nick Tyler review the Article 29 Working Party Opinion 13/2011 on geo-location services on smart mobile devices. They also ask: where do we go from here?…
Whipping the Chair Away
I found myself thinking the unthinkable today. What if there were no BAILII?…
EDPS Gives Data Retention Directive the Thumbs Down
The European Data Protection Supervisor has adopted an Opinion which is critical of the Data Retention Directive. His evaluation conflicts with that of the EU Commission and suggests that the Directive does not meet privacy and data protection requirements…
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Hargreaves Review Published
Digital Opportunity, the report from the review group chaired by Professor Ian Hargreaves, has now been published….