Darren Grayson Chng, our Singapore correspondent, reports on recently updated guidelines in Singapore clarifying how Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act applies to national identification documents….
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In force from 17th December 2018…
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Plain English Guidance aims to help organisations understand the benefits of encryption…
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The ICO has issued an Enforcement Notice after concerns raised by Amnesty International…
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Christopher Knight, of 11KBW, provides an instant look at what the proposed Withdrawal Agreement may mean for data protection and privacy regulation. First published on the Panopticon blog….
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The various EU bodies have issued a ‘Communication’, Preparing for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 30 March 2019: a Contingency Action Plan, which inter alia covers personal data…
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A six-month prison sentence has been imposed on a motor industry employee following the first Computer Misuse Act prosecution by the ICO…
The ICO’s wide-ranging updating report to Parliament, including coverage of the data protection aspects of the actions of Cambridge Analytica, Aggregate IQ, Facebook and Leave.EU, has been published…
In the last from our Tech Law Masterclass series, Nigel Miller provides a guide to the provisions of the GDPR that are most relevant when a data breach is believed to have occurred…
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For the last ten years Richard Stephens has provided an annual update on contract law for the SCL and also offers it by way of internal training for law firms and in-house legal departments. That puts him in a superb position to take a look at what has happened over the last decade and think about the major themes in contracts and contract law over those years. This is the latest in our series of articles from the Tech Law Masterclass appearing in the October/November issue of Computers & Law….
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