CAP on Online Behavioural Advertising
Helen Hart looks at new rules announced by the Committee of Advertising Practice…
Publishing & social media
SCL Meeting Report: Question Time
James Taylor reports on the first SCL Question Time – “Industry Interrogates Private Practice”, which took place on 13 November…
Ofcom Survey of Consumer Online Copyright Infringement
Ofcom has published the results of a large-scale consumer tracking study into the extent of online copyright infringement. It claims to reveal that nearly half of Internet users are unsure if content is legal and that one in six believe they are accessing some illegal content…
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EDPS Opinion on Cloud Computing
The EDPS has adopted an opinion which expresses his concern that responsibility for data protection and privacy in the Cloud should not be ‘up in the air’…
Technology, Technology, Technology
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Boldness Be My Friend – A Year On
At the SCL Forum in September, Graham Smith spoke about the regulation of the Internet and what he saw as the best way forward. This article is an edited version of the views expressed in that talk. These are his personal views, not attributable to his law firm or to any client. A series of articles arising from the Forum will be published in the New Year – this one is very much for now as Leveson looms and decisions on the Communications Bill and social media prosecutions are considered….
Data Protection Reform: House of Commons Justice Committee’s View
The EU Commission’s proposals to update data protection laws are too prescriptive, according to a new Report by the Justice Select Committee….
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Book Reviews: Three Books and a Thing and a Half
Laurence Eastham looks at three books with very different aims, and two things that may or may not be books but that cannot be separated without a close inspection….
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Case Compilation
Laurence Eastham brings together a few recent rulings of relevance to IT lawyers, covering topics as diverse as domain names, advertising standards and criminal procedure….
Editorial
Everybody is in favour of free speech. But the harsh reality is that public order and totally free speech do not go together. And while it is hard to divest the concept of public order from its, sometimes well deserved, public image of uniforms, truncheons and repression, the reality is that almost everybody is in…