Neil Brown, Rebecca Collard and Micheál Ó Floinn comment on the news that functionality within the HTML5 standard may allow surreptitious tracking of users….
Subject-access Requests: Privilege, Proportionality and Propriety
A High Court judgment has rejected a subject-access request served on solicitors…
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Consultation on Online Copyright Infringement Penalties
The IPO is running a consultation on proposals to increase sentences for online copyright infringement…
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Robots in the UK
In another in our series of articles inspired by the recent SCL Technology Law Futures Conference, Rob Buckingham looks at the reality of developments in the UK concerning robotics and autonomous systems, in the context of the coming explosion in the applications of AI…
Open Season on Service Providers? The General Data Protection Regulation Cometh…
Are you a service provider dealing with personal data? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Especially (but not only) if you’re an IaaS/PaaS cloud provider. Kuan Hon explains….
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Age and Online Access
Limiting online access to some web sites is terribly complicated, but can we please start by making it a little simpler…
In, Out or Shake it All About? The Impact of the UK Opt-out from the Policing and Criminal Justice Data Protection Directive
Rosemary Jay identifies areas of complexity and various data protection conundrums arising from UK opt-outs…
Wearable Tech – A Passing Fashion?
Fad, fashion or durable? Sarah Pearce has fashioned an article that looks at the trend towards wearables…
Ofcom Consultation on Mobile Switching
Ofcom has published options aimed at making it easier for consumers to change their mobile phone provider and is seeking views on its proposals…
Standard-essential Patents and Competition: CJEU Judgment
The Court of Justice of the European Union has made an important ruling in a case concerning patents in the telecoms sector that might have some implications in technology patent negotiations generally…
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