The Office of Fair Trading has announced that it is to begin an investigation into free children’s web and app-based games. Includes comment from Jas Purewal and Vanessa Barnett….
Golden Book and Blueprints for EU e-Procurement
The EU Commission has published one of two reports which provide pointers to good practices in e-procurement…
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Software Development: How the Traditional Contract Model Increases the Risk of Failure
Susan Atkinson and Gabrielle Benefield analyse recent research and draw disturbing conclusions about the ‘Contract Model’…
Article 29 Data Protection Working Party Opinion on Purpose Limitation
The European data protection authorities have clarified the principle of ‘purpose limitation’…
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Recollections of SCL in the 1980s and Early 1990s
In the year of SCL’s 40th anniversary, Richard Susskind, now President of SCL, offers a personal recollection of his early days in SCL…
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Human Enhancement Technologies – Edging towards the Cyborg?
Dr Benjamin Farrand asks: can you be greater than the sum of your parts? He considers just some of the socio-legal problems with Human Enhancement Technologies…
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Google Privacy Policy Enforcement
Six European data protection authorities are to launch coordinated and simultaneous enforcement actions in light of Google’s alleged breaches of data protection law…
SCL Lecture Report: Big and Open Data
Scott Allardyce reports on the SCL 40th Anniversary Lecture from Professor Nigel Shadbolt. A podcast of the Lecture is now available on the site….
E-signatures – Are They Legal in the Middle East?
Joycia Young and Kellie Blyth address the risks and highlight some of the issues to bear in mind when considering adopting e-signatures in the Middle East….
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Data Protection: NHS Turkeys Consulted on Christmas
The latest MoJ consultation is just a waste of time…
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