The next SCL Conference, to be held on 14 and 15 October in Bath, focuses on risk and technology, but you are not at risk on one score: the Conference always offers guaranteed value….
KM Group Seminar: Hitting the Target
Ruth Ward, Head of Central KM at Allen & Overy LLP, reports on the first of this year’s SCL KM Group seminars, held in London on 18th May 2011: Hitting the target? How law firms, publishers and in-house teams can use technology to ensure know-how publications and alerts reach their target client audience…
SCL Technology and Risk Conference 2011
We persist with the conference because we think it is a great opportunity over a day and a half to give effect to our philosophy of being a “community”….
Data Protection, Money Laundering and Terrorism
The Article 29 Working Party has issued a new Opinion and provided recommendations aimed at helping balance the need to prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism with the need to protect privacy….
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CCTV and Privacy
The ICO has forced a CCTV web site Internet Eyes to make changes following privacy concerns…
Geo-location
Cynthia O’Donoghue and Nick Tyler review the Article 29 Working Party Opinion 13/2011 on geo-location services on smart mobile devices. They also ask: where do we go from here?…
Whipping the Chair Away
I found myself thinking the unthinkable today. What if there were no BAILII?…
Retrospective…..
Richard Harrison takes a sentimental journey…….
EDPS Gives Data Retention Directive the Thumbs Down
The European Data Protection Supervisor has adopted an Opinion which is critical of the Data Retention Directive. His evaluation conflicts with that of the EU Commission and suggests that the Directive does not meet privacy and data protection requirements…
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Data (All Too) Direct
A personal injury worker has been prosecuted for illegally obtaining patients’ details….