In this opinion piece, Ian McDougall explains why he believes that the focus on data disasters and the technicalities of processing are obscuring the vision we need for a new way forward for data protection….
As anticipated, the Information Commissioner’s Office has given Google’s Street View the all-clear….
The ICO have gained some street cred in dealing with Street View. But does it get two cheers or three?…
Nick McDonald believes that the decision by a Swedish court to convict Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde of assisting making available copyrighted content’ is potentially significant, but that caution needs to shown in immediately suggesting it will have wider effect….
The European Commission announced on 14 April that it is to bring proceedings against the UK arising from trials of the Phorm behavioural advertising technology by UK ISPs….
First thoughts on the European Commission’s Move to bring infringement proceedings…
Laurence Eastham writes about the forthcoming SCL Information Governance Conference. The latest Conference, Managing Identity in a Digital World, is to be held on 12 May….
Reflections on Professor Brownsword’s lecture on regulating technologies…
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On 30 March, in the first of a new series of lectures titled ‘New Law for a New World’ sponsored by SCL in collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor Roger Brownsword of King’s College, London, tackled the topic of the interaction between regulation and technology. Bill Jones reports on the event….
The debate about the protection of individual privacy on the Internet could be about to take a new twist with the apparent removal of a statement supporting an opt-in regime for online behavioural advertising (OBA) from the website of the Information Commissioner’s Office….
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