BIS Consults on Data Breaches and Cookies
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has launched a new consultation affecting data protection law, privacy and e-commerce…
Privacy & Data Protection
Community, Forum and Conference
The SCL Policy Forum just finished and Annual Conference just to come give effect to our IT law “community”….
Buzzness Unusual, and UK Regulation
Can lawyers be a more effective ingredient in effective regulation in the UK?…
‘Copying’ Software Functionality – Is it an Infringement?
David Cran and Paul Joseph report on the important High Court judgment in SAS v WPL and analyse the effect of the ruling and the questions referred to the Court of Justice….
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Accountability: Made to Measure Data Privacy Compliance for the Proactive?
Cynthia O’Donoghue and Nick Tyler give an account of the Article 29 Working Party Opinion 3/2010 on the Principle of Accountability and explain its importance…
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E-disclosure: Spoilt for Choice
Mike Taylor offers a litigator’s guide to buying e-disclosure services…
E-billing
Bryan King considers the statutory and regulatory compliance issues surrounding legal e-billing…
IT Lawyers’ Cases in Brief
Centrica v Accenture Appeal Judgment In the Court of Appeal, Longmore LJ has given a resounding endorsement to the trial judge’s findings in the case generally referred to as Centrica v Accenture and more properly cited as GB Gas Holdings Limited v (1) Accenture (UK) Limited, (2) Accenture SCA, (3) Accenture International SARL, (4) Accenture…
Editorial
I am only too well aware that my blog posts and editorials often focus on the negative. And very often the negative that I focus on originates in Brussels or Luxembourg. So it is a particular pleasure to be impressed by recent developments and a special surprise (to me at least) that the developments which…
The iPad, the Cloud and Data Protection
Jon Bloor thinks that the enthusiastic reaction of many lawyers to the iPad may have to be tempered by a cool reflection on the dangers for data security that its adoption may entail….