A High Court judgment suggests that vicarious liability arises under data protection legislation and applies even where a rogue employee’s breach is aimed at revenging himself on a data protection compliant employer…
Predictions 2018 – 2
Gideon Shirazi weighs in with his predictions for 2018…
Predictions 2018 – 1
Simon Deane-Johns was first to contribute, appropriate enough as he is Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board for SCL, and he leads out our predictions blog posts for this year…
Evergreening Data Protection
David Chaplin, SCL Development Editor, reports on the South West Group’s really useful GDPR event held earlier this week….
Discovery and Data Protection
The Irish High Court has confronted the question of whether a court should order a person to make discovery of documents that can be obtained by making a data subject protection request…
Home Office Consultation on Communications Data and Data Retention
A seven-week consultation on proposed changes to the UK’s communications data retention and acquisition regime has opened….
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Copyright and Copies in the Cloud
The Court of Justice of the European Union has given its view on a case involving the copying of television programmes in the cloud…
Predictions 2018
Laurence Eastham recalls his old predictions and invites further input…
Grasping the Nettle: Tackling the Stinging Issues of Consent
Matthew Holman and Lewis Borg analyse some of the most pressing issues on consent under the GDPR and challenge the ICO to clarify some of its guidance…
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Age Verification Dangers
Following on from a widely welcomed presentation at SCL’s Sextech, Porn and the Law event in October, Pandora Blake offers a fuller analysis of the dangers and difficulties that come with the introduction of age verification in accordance with the Digital Economy Act 2017…