The European Data Protection Supervisor has offered his views on the recent concerns over Safe Harbor. He believes that enforcing EU data protection law is essential for rebuilding trust between the EU and the USA…
Read More… from EDPS on Safe Harbor and the Snowden Fall-out
Next week (Tuesday 25th February) the SCL Knowledge Management Committee are hosting a session “Apps within law firms” at BLP. The event is designed to be interactive looking at what legal apps are currently on the market. For all those attending the session, we encourage you to have a think about what makes a good…
SCL has a special offer for trainee solicitors, pupil barristers and ‘devils’…
The commitments offered by Google to the EU Commission to rectify its alleged abuse of its dominant position in online search have now been published in full…
Read More… from Google Search Anti-trust Commitments Published
In what seems like a last-ditch attempt to get EU ministers to focus on resolving the remaining major issues on data protection reform, the European Data Protection Supervisor has written to the President of the EU Commission expressing his views on the critical issues…
Read More… from Data Protection Reform: EDPS Letter Calls for Resolution
According to the Court of Justice of the European Union, the owner of a web site may, without the authorisation of the copyright holders, redirect internet users, via hyperlinks, to protected works available on a freely accessible basis on another site. But that ‘freely accessible’ reservation is important…
Read More… from CJEU Rules that Hyperlinks are OK! Unless there’s a ‘New Public’
The latest High Court judgment on protected search terms has resulted in a triumph for the specialist cosmetics company, Lush…
Read More… from Lush v Amazon: High Court Judgment on Trade Mark Infringement Online
Claire Davies, Hannah Crowther and Emma Charlton report on the Data Protection Update Seminar held at Bristows LLP on 28 January…
Read More… from SCL Event Report: Data Protection Update Seminar
Thoughts, and a call for suggestions, on the topics that SCL members need to see covered in SCL’s October Conference…
Lillian Pang and Peter Lee ask some difficult questions about data protection and privacy regulation, the effects of the ‘hoovering-up’ of data by all manner of applications and the extent of the real demand for privacy in the use of technology…