On Monday evening (8th July 2013) The Society for Computers and Law (SCL) Knowledge Management Committee hosted an event at Pinsent Mason LLP. The event was discussing e-Learning vs more traditional methods. There was a panel of three speakers: Usha Puri-Dewage our Senior L&D Consultant, giving an overview of e-learning in law firms;Pip Johnson from…
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Simon Worthy offers a view on the dangers of TOR and the perceived inadequacies of reaction to the dangers it seems willingly to embrace. Whether it is really Dantesque and whether all hope should be abandoned is a matter that SCL members may wish to debate….
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The Law Commission is seeking views on whether social media in a criminal law context is worthy of its attention…
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Christelle Coslin and Christine Gateau explain the significance of important 2012 judgments in the French Supreme Court, which ruled that there is no obligation on hosting providers in France to ensure that notified content is not later re-posted online by its users…
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The DPP has published final guidelines for prosecutions involving social media communications…
Anonymized data? Maybe not so anonymous. Marion Oswald explains how anonymization offers a real challenge to lawyers and that they might not always be best equipped to deal with it…
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Bridget Treacy and Naomi McBride bring us up to date with the latest developments on the EU DP Regulation…
Laurence Eastham reveals all he knows about the identity of those involved in the Downing Street fling and wonders if there are lessons for a poorly resourced ICO….
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Laurence Eastham was drawn to a discussion in the SCL LinkedIn group that really took off and wonders if it has relevance for all IT lawyers…
Phil Lee considers the impact that Google Glass and other ‘smart glasses’ may have on privacy issues and calls for new thinking…
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