This is a revised version of Richard Morgan’s look at the classification of controllers, processors and sharers. He has revised it in light of the ICO new code on data sharing. Richard offers his own insights on how best to distinguish between the various classifications enshrined in the DPA….
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The latest Opinion from the Article 29 Working Party is now available. It covers radio-frequency identification applications….
The EU’s ‘cyber security’ Agency ENISA has published a position paper on the security and privacy concerns regarding new types of online cookies….
I am glad I am not married to the EU Commission….
Neil Brown reports on Professor Christopher Millard’s presentation at the SCL Thames Valley Group meeting of 16 February…
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In our latest article in the Back to Basics series, Roger Bickerstaff and Anna Cook examine the service level and service credit regimes. They highlight the related traps for the unwary and focus on useful practical approaches when establishing the regimes in a commercial IT contract….
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Andrew Charlesworth focuses on universities, freedom of information and open research – and reveals that combining these promising ingredients results in an unpalatable and potentially dangerous cocktail…
In an article arising from the SCL Policy Forum 2010, Jeremy Newton looks back at Richard Susskind’s ground-breaking book and examines the extent to which the paradigm has in fact shifted…
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Two councils face monetary penalties for unencrypted laptop theft…
In this article, inspired by the SCL Forum 2010, Chris Reed looks at the basics of legal protection of works and questions whether the focus on the right to copy remains appropriate in radically changed circumstances….
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