Peter Bullock is a Partner at Masons and heads their Informationand Technology Law Group in Hong Kong having relocated there from Masons’London office last year. He may be contacted by e-mail at peter-bullock@masons.com….
Rico Calleja is an Information Lawyer in the Media and Communications Group at Theodore Goddard. He may be contacted on ricocalleja@theodoregoddard.co.uk…
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Jackie Wilson is a solicitor in private practice and Chair of the SCL Solent Group. She can be contacted at jackiewilson@compuserve.com…
This tour of m-legal issues and technologies from Paul Lambert was also published in the Irish Law Society Gazette….
Catherine Colston looks at the problems with database information retrieval and suggests a way forward….
From his herd he culls, For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls. Only the quote is from Dryden, the article is from Jeremy Warner of the University of Strathclyde. He undertakes an in-depth study of the development of the principle….
It was generally assumed that data which did not identify individuals fell outside the scope of the Data Protection Act 1998 and therefore the restrictions imposed on the use of “personal data” did not apply. However, recent legal guidance issued by the UK Information Commissioner has thrown this into doubt. Partner Nigel Wildish and assistant Marcus Turle, of the IT & E-commerce group at City law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse, discuss why data controllers may have to rethink how anonymous data are handled….
Stephen Mason reviews Human Rights in the Digital Age, edited by Mathias Klang and Andrew Murray (Glasshouse Press, 2005) ISBN 1-90438-531-1…
Last April the Performance and Innovation Unit, one of Whitehall’s most influential bodies, produced a report entitled “Privacy and data-sharing, the way forward for public services” (PIU report). The report took two years to write and its aim was to provide a ‘new strategic approach’ to the use of personal data held by the public sector. But there are some significant limitations in the report, not least poor analysis of the legal issues. Sarah Williams of Masons feels that questions remain about how the exchange of information can be justified and what the implications for privacy rights will be….
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