The European Court of Human Rights has given judgment in a case brought to challenge elements of surveillance applying under the RIPA 2000. Although technically finding against the UK, it does not appear to materially affect the current surveillance regime…
The Government has issued guidance on ‘the actions UK organisations should take to enable the continued flow of personal data between the UK and the EU in the unlikely event that the UK leaves the EU in March 2019 with no agreement in place.’…
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The European Commission has published proposals for new legislation ‘to get terrorist content off the web, making sure that the same obligations are imposed in a uniform manner across the whole Union’….
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Laurence Eastham on two disparate topics that collided in his time-line this week and made a connection that goes beyond the mere chronological….
Mark O’Conor reflects on SCL’s activities and looks forward to the forthcoming SCL Conference…
Jon Baines asks whether the FCA – or any data controller – can any longer argue that it’s too expensive to have to rectify inaccurate personal data…
Read More… from GDPR – an Unqualified Right to Rectification?
With many years of experience of working with Agile, Simon Worthy gives an IT Consultant’s view of the ways in which lawyers need to improve their understanding of the workings of Agile…
Laurence Eastham looks at case law trends and worries about the wildness of the west…
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the posting on a website of a photograph that was freely accessible on another website with the consent of the author requires a new authorisation by that author…
A new Code of Practice applies from 15 August…
Read More… from New Code of Practice on the Investigation of Protected Electronic Information