Article 29 WP on Online Behavioural Advertising
An Article 29 Working Party Opinion on online behavioural advertising was adopted on 22 June and has now been published….
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Privacy & Data Protection
EU Requires UK to Give the ICO More Powers
The EU Commission has formally requested the UK to strengthen the powers of the Information Commissioner…
EDPS Opinion on EU/USA Banking Data Sharing
The European Data Protection Supervisor has published his Opinion on the draft agreement for the sharing of financial messaging, officially the Proposal for a Council Decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Union and the United States of America on the processing and transfer of Financial Messaging Data from the European Union to the United States for purposes of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP II)…
Transparency and Publication of Personal Data
There is a newly published Advocate General Opinion on the publication of personal data in a case which may have real relevance to the new UK government’s moves to open up public information…
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Computer Fraud in Ireland
Pearse Ryan and Andrew Harbison discuss the law on computer fraud in Ireland and the law of dishonesty associated with it. The article casts considerable light on the practical realities of computer crime….
IT Lawyers’ Cases in Brief
Laurence Eastham summarises some of the judgments which have been published in the last two months and which are of interest to IT lawyers….
Editorial
This issue has two striking features: the preponderance of case reports and analysis and the contributions to policy formation from SCL represented by the cost-sharing response and the first Society for Computers and Law Policy Document. Cases What does it say about IT law that we can have no less than six articles devoted to…
West Berks Data Loss
West Berkshire Council has had to take remedial action after losing children’s personal data…
Data Loss – Never Out of Fashion?
Will we ever see a time when data loss is an unusual occurrence?…
Digital Music and Online Intermediaries
The Trustees of SCL are delighted to adopt this important contribution to the debate on solutions to the problem of unlawful file-sharing and its effect on copyright holders as an SCL Policy Document. The Document, written by Professor Chris Reed and Berna Akcali Gur, reviews the legal issues surrounding copyright in digital music and the potential liability of ISPs and suggests a move to a long-term solution where access providers pay licence fees to content owners – and users receive the music free of restriction. The Paper is one product of the highly successful SCL Forum, held in September 2009 and hosted and sponsored by Herbert Smith LLP….