E-commerce Formalities Back in the CJEU Spotlight
Graham Smith is inspired by a recent CJEU judgment to reflect on requirements of form and the history of contract formalities…
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Privacy & Data Protection
SCL Event Report: Irish Group Data Protection May Seminar
John O’Connor reports on a recent successful meeting…
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Data Protection Developments: How to Cope
If you have that Monday morning whenever you think about data protection reform, not just on Mondays, Andrew Cormack suggests ways to cope. A focus on current enforcement practice and the data protection principles is one option; quiet despair seems to be another….
Digital Single Market Strategy: IT Law Highlights
Although the launch of the EU Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy on 6 May will no doubt make it into the major news media even in this period of pre-election obsession, accurate reporting cannot be guaranteed. Highlighted below are some of the observations and views expressed by the Commission in their strategy document and the key proposals that affect IT lawyers….
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Catt: A Different Perspective on the Supreme Court Judgment
Mark Turnbull considers the implications of the Supreme Court judgment in R (Catt & T) v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, especially the implications for local authorities in their data handling, and detects a diversion from the true path set by Strasbourg…
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Driverless Cars: Where Technology and Law Collide
Susan McLean and Mercedes Samavi take another look at this phenomenon of the future that is speeding down the road towards us…
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Transitional Services Agreements: Separation, Extraction and Cross-Licensing Issues
Nick Pantlin and Miriam Everett explain that, though TSAs may seem like the ugly ducklings in major corporate transactions, they need to be treated with the same care and respect as the corporate transaction swans…
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Biometric Data and Data Protection Law: the CJEU Loses the Plot
Steve Peers explains and excoriates a CJEU judgment that side-steps data protection questions…
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Law Firms and Data Protection ‘Breaches’
A response to an FOI request suggests that the ICO investigated 173 UK law firms for reported breaches in 2014…
Smart Cities – Power to the Citizens?
Smart Cities are creating a buzz. Emma Wright and Dianne Devlin explain what the excitement is about and highlight some of the challenges…