A very interesting High Court judgment in Ireland has tackled the data protection implications of ISPs sharing data for the purpose of limiting illegal file-sharing…
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Julia Hörnle reports on the Court of Justice judgment in the Google AdWords case but questions whether the judgment gives quite as much freedom to Google as some have suggested….
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Rupert Kendrick argues that organisations that fail to apply governance principles in the management of IT outsourcing projects are inviting project failure. His words of wisdom are likely to strike a chord with outsourcing lawyers whose clients have overlooked these principles. But they may be of equal interest to law firms considering any element of outsourcing….
Chris James covers firewalls, the risk to information security and data protection….
The European Court of Justice has found that Google has not infringed trade mark law by allowing advertisers to purchase keywords corresponding to their competitors’ trade marks. However, it has prohibited advertisers from using such keywords when arranging for Google to display any ads which do not allow internet users easily to establish from which undertaking the goods or services covered by the ad in question originate…
The European Data Protection Supervisor has issued a ‘practical set of Guidelines to European institutions and bodies on how to use video-surveillance responsibly’….
The office of the European Data Protection Supervisor has been working overtime. In addition to its work on video surveillance guidelines, it published an Opinion on ‘Promoting trust in the information society by fostering data protection and privacy’ on 18 March. The focus is on privacy by design (PbD)…
A newly published statutory instrument confirms the anticipated implementation of the new provisions for assessment notices….
The European Court of Justice has ruled against state supervision of data protection supervisors and has held that ‘complete independence’ is key….
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The Article 29 Working Party recently published an Opinion on two of the key concepts under the Data Protection Directive – ‘data controller’ and ‘data processor’. Tanguy Van Overstraeten and Richard Cumbley explain that the distinction between the two has a number of practical implications including determining who is liable to comply with data protection law and whether processing clauses are required….
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