Self-driving Cars: Review of Laws Launched
The Government has announced a review of driving laws in preparation for self-driving vehicles…
Privacy & Data Protection
Triple Jump over Data Protection Fees
At the time of the consultation of the new regime for data protection fees, the maximum fee was floated as £1000. The draft fees regulations suggest a maximum fee of £2900. Laurence Eastham bemoans his ignorance of the process that led to a leap that would leave Jonathan Edwards in awe…
Is Singapore’s Digital transformation of the legal sector making progress?
Darren Grayson Chng, our Singapore Associate Editor, reviews the progress of their 5 year plan for legal digital transformation…
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EU Commission Recommendation on Operational Measures to Tackle Illegal Content Online
The European Commission has published its recommendation on operational measures to tackle illegal content online…
Covert CCTV at Work: is this ever possible?
Gwynneth Tan and Michael Briggs consider decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, which recently held that covert CCTV infringed a worker’s right to a private life. A previous decision of the same court permitted use of covert CCTV. They ask where employers stand…
Editorial – February/March 2018
Laurence Eastham reviews this issue and some of the matters that we will be covering in the future…
Draft Data Protection (Charges and Information) Regulations 2018
The draft of this crucial statutory instrument is now available online and aims to have effect from ‘GDPR day’, 25 May…
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The Cyberthreat Landscape Post-GDPR
Natasha Bougourd warns of a new level of danger as the GDPR gives the baddies a new tool to play with…
Forgetting What We Never Knew
Laurence Eastham thinks that two pre-trial judgments from the High Court concerning the right to be forgotten lead us towards a strange conundrum…
Supermarket Swept up into Liability of Rogue Employee
Mark Deem recounts the Morrisons tale of woe and considers its implications…
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