ICO Report on Big Data
According to the Information Commissioner’s Office, Big Data is ‘not a game played by different rules’…
Privacy & Data Protection
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?…
Article 29 WP Reports on Meeting with Google et al: All Questions, No Answers
The Article 29 Working Party has released a statement following its meeting with Google and other search engines, held on 24 July, concerning the ‘right to be forgotten’…
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Latest Monetary Penalty for Hacking Breach
The ICO has served a monetary penalty notice on an online travel services company that exposed customer records to a malicious hacker…
Legislating on Revenge Porn: An International Perspective
Alex Cochrane looks at the latest suggestions that the UK will legislate on revenge porn and asks if anything can be learned from the different international approaches to date…
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When Hackers Strike, Who Pays the Bill?
Threats to internet security are constantly in the news, but organisations of all sizes will know that there is a real cost to be borne when systems are hacked. James Hyde and Neil Jackson consider a recent TCC judgment which had to consider who should bear the cost….
In-app Purchases: Google is Teacher’s Pet and Apple is on the Naughty Step
The European Commission reports on progress, and the lack of it, in improving transparency on in-app purchases in online games. Reads like an end-of term report…
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Tiptoeing Through the Online Jungle: The Media’s Need for Guidance
Justin Dear offers some guidelines of general application that may help those working in the media decide when it is legal and acceptable to publish photographs online…
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The Internet of Things: A Lawyer’s Guide
In the first of a series of articles arising from SCL’s hugely successful Technology Law Futures Forum, which is still available as a podcast, Alistair Maughan shines a light on the Internet of Things and the important points for lawyers to note…
Facebook Experiment: Justified Outrage
Filtering news and manipulating moods and emotions? Yep, that’s me. And probably lots of you too….