The latest MoJ consultation is just a waste of time…
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Podcast: SCL 40th Anniversary Lecture: “Big and Open – The New Data Frontiers” given by Professor Nigel Shadbolt on Thursday 21 March 2013
A recording of SCL’s 40th anniversary lecture…
Bad Bots
If you count software bots as robots then robots are already being used to deceive and exploit people who mistake them for humans. Miranda Mowbray enlightens you….
CPD Online: Data Protection Law Update 2013
Question arising from the seminar held on 27 February 2013 where important developments in data protection were covered. HW/SFCL:OC3 CPD: 2 hours…
Data Protection: Facebook and the Right Kind of Establishment
Julia Hörnle looks at a German case concerning the application of EU data protection law to foreign service providers and similar questions arising elsewhere in the EU, all of which raise issues about what amounts to the right kind of establishment…
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Justice Committee Report on ICO
The House of Commons Justice Committee has published a report on the functions, powers and resources of the Information Commissioner…
Wide-eyed
It is facile to say that IT law is international in its scope. But do IT lawyers wear jurisdictional blinkers anyway?…
Tamiz v Google: the Court of Appeal Verdict
Graham Smith gives us his take on the recent Court of Appeal judgment in Tamiz v Google. This article is taken from his Cyberleagle blog at www.cyberleagle.com….
Under the Surface
Paul Mew asks how the new Microsoft tablet compares to Apple’s business–world dominating iPad…
Security for Sub-licensees?
Rod J. Cowper, Ben Goodger and Ellen Hughes-Jones ask if there is new security for sub-licensees. The question arises following a High Court ruling that a sub-licence for the use of software survived the termination of the head licence under which it was granted. This article appears in the April edition of In-House Lawyer. It is a more detailed analysis than the article from the same authors, Sub-licence Survivor, which appeared on this site last month….