The Devil is in the Detail
Apparently, nobody reads online terms and conditions. So why are you wasting your time drafting them properly?…
Privacy & Data Protection
Data Protection and Three Strikes in Ireland
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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Google AdWords: Free Rein to Search Engines?
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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Outsourcing IT: The Governance Challenge
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….
Does Your Firewall Have an Open Door?
Chris James covers firewalls, the risk to information security and data protection….
AdWords: The ECJ Judgment
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…
EDPS Guidelines on Video-surveillance
The European Data Protection Supervisor has issued a ‘practical set of Guidelines to European institutions and bodies on how to use video-surveillance responsibly’….
EDPS and PbD
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)…
Assessment Notices Implementation
A newly published statutory instrument confirms the anticipated implementation of the new provisions for assessment notices….
EU Commission and EDPS v Germany: Complete Independence
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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