Age Verification for Pornography Consultation
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has launched a consultation on ‘Child Safety Online: Age Verification for Pornography’…
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Standard Essential Patents and FRAND: Recent Developments in the UK
Two recent cases have cast light on the way a court might view FRAND terms. Tom Foster sets the scene and examines the guidance that has emerged….
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The Network and Information Security Directive (‘Cybersecurity’ Directive)
Stewart James gives an account of this important new pending directive…
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New SCL Chair’s Vision for the Future
In his first communication with SCL members as SCL Chair, Mark O’Conor gives a sense of where SCL has got to and where it can go as a Society over the next few years….
GDPR: The End for the Marketing List Industry?
Chris Bridges focuses on the impact of the GDPR on one particular data-dependent industry….
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Rights of Data Subjects under the GDPR
In the latest in our series of articles focusing on aspects of the GDPR, Tim Hickman and Dr. Detlev Gabel review the various rights granted under the GDPR, consider how they differ from the current set of rights set out in the Directive and go on to consider the impact that each such right is likely to have on organisations that act as data controllers….
The Fourth Revolution, Digital Single Market and Year Ahead for IT lawyers
Darren Jones gives readers a light introduction to some of the themes he will be covering in greater depth in later articles on DSM…
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New Article 29 Working Party Opinions
Although adopted in December, the latest opinions of the Article 29 Working Party have only now been published. The first, Opinion 175/16/EN WP 234, has the full title ‘Guidelines for Member States on the criteria to ensure compliance with data protection requirements in the context of the automatic exchange of personal data for tax purposes’…
Barbulescu and Workplace Monitoring: Much Ado about Nothing
David Whincup bemoans the distorted media reaction to the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Barbulescu v Romania and sets out the real lessons to take away from the case….
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Smart Meters in the UK – an IT Perspective
Marlon Cohen gives a detailed update on progress and raises some of the questions that surround the smart metering project…