According to the House of Lords Home Affairs, Health and Education EU Sub-Committee, the ‘right to be forgotten’ is unworkable, unreasonable and wrong in principle…
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Google’s Advisory Council on the ‘right to be forgotten’ has issued a call for comments and evidence and is to hold a series of meetings across the EU….
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According to the Information Commissioner’s Office, Big Data is ‘not a game played by different rules’…
One year on from the Scottish Borders Appeal, Paul Motion and Laura Irvine ask: has the ICO’s approach changed?…
The Article 29 Working Party has released a statement following its meeting with Google and other search engines, held on 24 July, concerning the ‘right to be forgotten’…
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The ICO has served a monetary penalty notice on an online travel services company that exposed customer records to a malicious hacker…
Alex Cochrane looks at the latest suggestions that the UK will legislate on revenge porn and asks if anything can be learned from the different international approaches to date…
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Threats to internet security are constantly in the news, but organisations of all sizes will know that there is a real cost to be borne when systems are hacked. James Hyde and Neil Jackson consider a recent TCC judgment which had to consider who should bear the cost….
The European Commission reports on progress, and the lack of it, in improving transparency on in-app purchases in online games. Reads like an end-of term report…
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Justin Dear offers some guidelines of general application that may help those working in the media decide when it is legal and acceptable to publish photographs online…
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