Carl Gardner writes on the rejected appeal by BT and TalkTalk over the Digital Economy Act’s impact on ISPs. This article is taken from his timely blog post on the always stimulating Head of Legal blog: www.headoflegal.com…
Data Protection Reform: EDPS Opinion and Cloud Legal Team Response
The European Data Protection Supervisor has published his official Opinion on the reform package and the Cloud Legal Project has published its response to the MoJ’s Call for Evidence on the proposals….
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BT/TalkTalk Judicial Review Judgment
The Court of Appeal’s judgment in the much anticipated dispute concerning the Digital Economy Act has now been published….
User-generated Content and Defamation: New Judgment re Google’s Blogger.com
The High Court has given answers to some of the questions concerning liability for online defamation arising from alleged libel in comments attached to a post on Google’s Blogger.com. Was Google a publisher? Was it protected by the Defamation Act and/or the E-commerce Directive? Laurence Eastham summarises key points from the judgment….
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University’s Data Protection Breach
The dangers of inadvertent breach of the Data Protection Act arising from publishing on the web are highlighted by the latest report from the ICO…
Judgment in Football Fixture Copyright Case
The Court of Justice has given judgment in Football Dataco v Yahoo and has set out some guidance on when a database can be protected by copyright…
ICO’s Initial Analysis of EU Data Protection Reform Proposals
The Information Commissioner’s Office has published what it describes as its initial analysis of the European Commission’s proposals for a revised data protection legislative framework…
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Cookies Compliance: The Practicalities
Many organisations, from internet start-ups to large regional, national and international businesses and public bodies, are starting to wake up to the reality of the amended cookies law. This article from Aisling Duffy, Holly Cheng and Alex Newson explores the practicalities of becoming compliant, including the experience of one business, Experian….
Social Media – Time for a Firm-wide Policy?
In light of recent guidance for law firms from the Law Society, Laura Scaife looks at the need for a policy on social media…
Google’s Privacy Policy and EU Data Protection
The exchange between the Article 29 Working Party and Google about its new privacy policy has heated up…
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