SCL President Richard Susskind is to interview Tim Berners-Lee in a special event on Saturday 27 September…
iOS 8: Too Much Privacy?
I fear that Apple’s latest privacy policy may cause many problems…
Article 29 Working Party on Google Spain: Latest
The long-awaited guidance from the Article 29 Working Party on how the Google Spain judgment might best be implemented is still awaited. The most recent meeting has agreed only some mechanisms for producing such guidance….
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SCL Event Report: Foundations of IT Law Programme – Module 6: Cloud Computing
James Henderson reports on the sixth module in SCL’s Foundation of IT Law, which took place on 10 September 2014…
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Driving us from Distraction
David Flint ponders on, and worries about, the Internet of Things and self-driving cars…
Uber: TfL and the Taxonomy of Taximeters
Neil Brown examines the recent controversy over the taxi app ‘Uber’, and questions whether TfL’s decision in favour of Uber is a beneficial step for innovation….
Driverless Cars: Views Sought for SCL Response
The SCL Technology Law Futures Group is drafting a response to the Department of Transport’s Open consultation “Driverless cars: regulatory testing framework”…
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Copyright: Digitising of Books
In a new judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that a Member State may authorise libraries to digitise, without the consent of the rightholders, books they hold in their collection so as to make them available at electronic reading points. Subject to specified conditions, especially the payment of fair compensation to rightholders, such an authorisation may permit users to print out on paper or store on a USB stick the books digitised by the library….
Defamation and the E-commerce Directive
The Court of Justice has given its ruling in a case concerning the interplay between defamation law and the special status given to providers of information society services under the E-commerce Directive…
Privacy and Apps Survey
A global survey has found that 85% of mobile apps fail to provide basic privacy information…