The Information Commissioner has launched a consultation on changes to monetary penalties guidance and has issued draft revised guidance…
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Now firmly established as a leading event on the calendar for both IT law academics and IT law practitioners, the SCL Forum 2011 will grapple with Internet law reform. While a combination of blue-sky thinking and grounded, practical views sounds like a recipe for disaster, experience shows that it leads to a very special event….
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Nicola Fulford reports on the SCL Privacy & Data Protection Group meeting of 23 June that was subtitled ‘Mitigating Bribery Act Risk and staying data privacy compliant…
James Besley reports on the SCL meeting on 15 June about outsourcing for law firms, which was sponsored by the SCL London Group and hosted by CMS Cameron McKenna….
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Andrew Priest gives his thoughts on a talk by Stephen Deadman of the Vodafone Group at a meeting of the Thames Valley Group on 8 June….
Stephen Mathias analyses important new laws which have an impact on all businesses operating in or having connections with India….
The Article 29 Working Party has issued a new Opinion and provided recommendations aimed at helping balance the need to prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism with the need to protect privacy….
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The ICO has forced a CCTV web site Internet Eyes to make changes following privacy concerns…
Cynthia O’Donoghue and Nick Tyler review the Article 29 Working Party Opinion 13/2011 on geo-location services on smart mobile devices. They also ask: where do we go from here?…
The European Data Protection Supervisor has adopted an Opinion which is critical of the Data Retention Directive. His evaluation conflicts with that of the EU Commission and suggests that the Directive does not meet privacy and data protection requirements…
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