A Welsh health board has become the first NHS organisation to be served a monetary penalty following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act, the Information Commissioner’s Office said on 30 April….
Computer-assisted Review: Reducing Risk for the CPS
People make mistakes. But some operate in areas where mistakes can cause terrible distress. Howard Sklar explains how the use of computer-assisted review might help the CPS cut down on mistakes. It is a lesson which is obviously of much wider application….
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How Card-based Merchant Acquiring Really Works
A review of the Payment Services Directive by the European Commission provides an opportunity for Simon Deane-Johns to clarify its scope by reference to how the major card schemes actually work….
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ACTA: EDPS Opinion Warns of Dangers
ACTA’s measures to enforce IP rights in the digital environment could threaten privacy and data protection if not properly implemented according to the European Data Protection Supervisor…
CPD Online: April / May 2012 Edition of Computers & Law Magazine
Questions arising from the April / May 2012 issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL23 – 1 hour 30 minutes…
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E-disclosure: The Wood for the Trees
Charles Holloway considers some of the current areas of controversy surrounding the use of predictive coding. This article is an edited version of a post which appeared recently on the Millnet Smart E-Discovery Blog….
Editorial
Given that the IT industry is, almost by definition, innovative and thirsty for new challenges, it seems somewhat surprising that the ‘new cookies law’ provokes what authors in this issue describe as gasps of horror. It is a surprise partly because the so-called cookies law is not really ‘new’ anymore. It derives from a 2009…
Online Supplement to April / May 2012 issue
These are pdfs of some of the articles that we could not quite fit into the magazine this time around through lack of space. These articles may be included in a later issue….
Resale of Software Licences: Advocate General’s Opinion
According to the Advocate General, creators of computer programs may oppose the resale of ‘used’ licences which allow their programs to be downloaded from the Internet again. However, he suggests that they may not oppose the resale of ‘used’ copies, downloaded by their own customers from the Internet, given that their exclusive right of distribution relating to those copies is ‘exhausted’….
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G-Cloud v1: Cloud Legal Project’s Analysis
QMUL’s Cloud Legal Project has released its analysis of the UK G-Cloud v1 and highlights key cloud issues…