Are big companies playing fair when they ask us to sign up to immensely complicated T&Cs online?…
SCL Meeting Report: Cookie Consent – What Recipe?
Laura Mackenzie reports on the recent SCL Midlands Group meeting, Cookie Consent – What Recipe?, held at Wragge & Co LLP on 28 March 2012….
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New Cookie Guide
The International Chamber of Commerce has launched its ICC UK Cookie Guide…
More Data Protection Act Convictions – More Fines
The ICO reports another case involving convictions for breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 as company directors use a council employee to illegally access tenants’ details…
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Football Dataco: No Database Copyright Protection for Fixture Lists
David Cran and Paul Joseph consider the ECJ judgment in Football Dataco v Yahoo! and its likely impact…
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New Article 29 Working Party Opinions Published
The Article 29 Working Party has adopted Opinions on the data protection reform proposals and on facial recognition….
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Wasted Costs Order for E-disclosure Failures
Deborah Blaxell looks at a scary High Court judgment affecting e-disclosure…
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Twitter Libel: Cricket Match-fixing Judgment
The judgment in the match-fixing libel case involving New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns focuses on a libel originating on Twitter but has little meat for IT lawyers….
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Reforming the Civil Justice System: SCL Annual Lecture 2012 Report
Richard Harrison reports on the SCL Annual Lecture, given by The Rt Hon Lord Justice Jackson on 26 March. A podcast of the Lecture will be available shortly….
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EU Commission Proposes to Establish a European Cybercrime Centre
On 28 March, the EU Commission proposed that a European Cybercrime Centre be established within Europol to become the Union’s focal point in the fight against cybercrime…
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