ICC UK Cookie Guide: Taking the Biscuit
Robert Bond, lead contributor to the ICC UK’s Cookie Guide, reviews the Guide, which was published on 2 April 2012 with the endorsement of Christopher Graham, the UK Information Commissioner….
Privacy & Data Protection
Roofers, Hamlet and T&Cs
Are big companies playing fair when they ask us to sign up to immensely complicated T&Cs online?…
SCL Meeting Report: Cookie Consent – What Recipe?
Laura Mackenzie reports on the recent SCL Midlands Group meeting, Cookie Consent – What Recipe?, held at Wragge & Co LLP on 28 March 2012….
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New Cookie Guide
The International Chamber of Commerce has launched its ICC UK Cookie Guide…
More Data Protection Act Convictions – More Fines
The ICO reports another case involving convictions for breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 as company directors use a council employee to illegally access tenants’ details…
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New Article 29 Working Party Opinions Published
The Article 29 Working Party has adopted Opinions on the data protection reform proposals and on facial recognition….
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Wasted Costs Order for E-disclosure Failures
Deborah Blaxell looks at a scary High Court judgment affecting e-disclosure…
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File-sharing and Norwich Pharmacal: Court Supervision of Letter of Claim
The High Court has made a Norwich Pharmacal order in favour of Golden Eye and Ben Dover Productions in a preliminary move towards volume file-sharing litigation. But Arnold J has applied a number of stringent conditions affecting the further pursuit of the action and has insisted upon a number of amendments to the draft letter of claim….
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Too Many Cooks?
Are there too many bodies interfering in Internet regulation?…
Google Privacy Policy: CNIL Request for Clarifications
The Article 29 Working Party has sought response from Google to a series of pertinent questions about its new privacy policy. The questionnaire is revealing in that it points to the widening nature of the data protection concerns….
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