In the year of SCL’s 40th anniversary, Richard Susskind, now President of SCL, offers a personal recollection of his early days in SCL…
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Dr Benjamin Farrand asks: can you be greater than the sum of your parts? He considers just some of the socio-legal problems with Human Enhancement Technologies…
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Six European data protection authorities are to launch coordinated and simultaneous enforcement actions in light of Google’s alleged breaches of data protection law…
The Ministry of Justice is conducting a consultation on a proposal to extend the powers of the ICO to carry out compulsory assessments of NHS bodies….
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The latest MoJ consultation is just a waste of time…
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If you count software bots as robots then robots are already being used to deceive and exploit people who mistake them for humans. Miranda Mowbray enlightens you….
Question arising from the seminar held on 27 February 2013 where important developments in data protection were covered. HW/SFCL:OC3 CPD: 2 hours…
Julia Hörnle looks at a German case concerning the application of EU data protection law to foreign service providers and similar questions arising elsewhere in the EU, all of which raise issues about what amounts to the right kind of establishment…
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The House of Commons Justice Committee has published a report on the functions, powers and resources of the Information Commissioner…
It is facile to say that IT law is international in its scope. But do IT lawyers wear jurisdictional blinkers anyway?…