Eduardo Ustaran warns that the draft report by the LIBE Committee on the data protection reform directive, with its revised proposal for the regulation, looks to tighten control yet further, not slacken the reins…
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The Leveson Report included a series of recommendations which related to data protection issues, and might have a considerable impact on data protection regulation in the UK. The Information Commissioner’s Office has now published its response to the relevant parts of the Report….
Here is a selection of the online predictions made by our contributors. All relate to IT for law firms, e-disclosure or related issues….
Read More… from Predictions 2013 and Beyond: IT in Law and IT for Lawyers
A set of predictions, mainly from practising IT lawyers but with a few academics too, which range widely but include predictions on the developments expected in IT law….
Cloud services and data protection will become even more of a “hot topic” in 2013…
The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has decided to set up a regime for approval of binding corporate rules for data processors…
These may be the last set of predictions of 2012 – it is hard to predict that far in advance. But we have quality predictions from John Salmon, Pearse Ryan and Stephen Mason and it would be appropriate if SCL President Richard Susskind did indeed turn out to be our last contributor for 2012….
Read More… from Predictions 2013, and beyond: Part 11, Closing Statements?
Paul Lambert looks across the world at various cases involving Google and takes a look at its claim to defences and denial of liability…
Just as we started with a set of predictions from one firm (DLA Piper), we are closing (probably) with a set from lawyers at CMS Cameron McKenna LLP. Even if you are fed up with predictions by now, it is worth making an effort for this set of perceptive forecasts that go outside our normal comfort zone….
Read More… from Predictions 2013, and beyond: Part 10, CMS Cameron McKenna
Steve Ross tells us what issues business want dealt with in the European Commission’s standardised terms and conditions for cloud services, and why….