SCL Event Report: Irish Group Data Protection May Seminar
John O’Connor reports on a recent successful meeting…
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Litigation & DR
Data Protection Developments: How to Cope
If you have that Monday morning whenever you think about data protection reform, not just on Mondays, Andrew Cormack suggests ways to cope. A focus on current enforcement practice and the data protection principles is one option; quiet despair seems to be another….
Digital Single Market Strategy: IT Law Highlights
Although the launch of the EU Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy on 6 May will no doubt make it into the major news media even in this period of pre-election obsession, accurate reporting cannot be guaranteed. Highlighted below are some of the observations and views expressed by the Commission in their strategy document and the key proposals that affect IT lawyers….
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Cases Round-up
Internet Streaming and Broadcasters’ Rights The CJEU has ruled on a reference relating to the Infosoc Directive and communication to the public In Case C-279/13 C More Entertainment, a reference for a preliminary ruling from the Högsta domstolen (Sweden), the Court of Justice of the European Union had to consider issues surrounding the direct broadcast of…
Fare for All Appetites
What can SCL do to meet the needs of more senior IT lawyers?…
Catt: A Different Perspective on the Supreme Court Judgment
Mark Turnbull considers the implications of the Supreme Court judgment in R (Catt & T) v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, especially the implications for local authorities in their data handling, and detects a diversion from the true path set by Strasbourg…
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eDisclosure: The Perfect ESI Storm
Deborah Blaxell examines the trends and forecasts a stormy outlook, which poses a real danger for those not properly prepared…
Book Review: Andrew Keen’s ‘The Internet Is Not The Answer’
Neil Brown reviews a book that takes a controversial view of the Internet…
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Law Firms and Data Protection ‘Breaches’
A response to an FOI request suggests that the ICO investigated 173 UK law firms for reported breaches in 2014…
Vidal-Hall v Google: Can Big Brother Be Defeated?
Chris Bridges summarises the judgment in this important case and offers his thoughts on its implications…
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