RFID: Article 29 Working Party Opinion
The latest Opinion from the Article 29 Working Party is now available. It covers radio-frequency identification applications….
Privacy & Data Protection
ENISA Concern over ‘Bittersweet cookies’
The EU’s ‘cyber security’ Agency ENISA has published a position paper on the security and privacy concerns regarding new types of online cookies….
Secret Infractions
I am glad I am not married to the EU Commission….
Thames Valley Group Meeting Report: Cloud Computing Contracts
Neil Brown reports on Professor Christopher Millard’s presentation at the SCL Thames Valley Group meeting of 16 February…
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Back to Basics: Service Levels and Service Credits
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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Paved with Good Intentions
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…
Towards ‘Open Lawyering’ – Revisiting The Future of Law
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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ICO Issues More Monetary Penalties
Two councils face monetary penalties for unencrypted laptop theft…
Open Culture – Rethinking the Legal Framework
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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Reviewing the DEA
I thought you were supposed to find out if measures work before you include them in an Act of Parliament?…