David Chaplin reports on the War Stories: Best Practice in IT Dispute Resolution Seminar held on 24 June…
EU Requires UK to Give the ICO More Powers
The EU Commission has formally requested the UK to strengthen the powers of the Information Commissioner…
Net Neutrality: Ofcom ‘opens debate’
Ofcom has published a discussion paper and is seeking views on net neutrality issues…
EDPS Opinion on EU/USA Banking Data Sharing
The European Data Protection Supervisor has published his Opinion on the draft agreement for the sharing of financial messaging, officially the Proposal for a Council Decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Union and the United States of America on the processing and transfer of Financial Messaging Data from the European Union to the United States for purposes of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP II)…
Google Wins in Viacom/YouTube Dispute
The judge in the long-running dispute between Viacom and You Tube (now a Google company) has granted Google’s application for summary judgment…
Transparency and Publication of Personal Data
There is a newly published Advocate General Opinion on the publication of personal data in a case which may have real relevance to the new UK government’s moves to open up public information…
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New gTLDs: Shaking up the Internet
The pool for domain names may well increase dramatically by late 2011 with the introduction of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) and a variety of different generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). These developments will undoubtedly drive changes in businesses’ online reputation strategy and management. Nick Wenban-Smith explains the proposed new landscape and outlines how businesses can prepare for this imminent arrival of new domains….
CPD Online: June / July 2010 Edition of Computers & Law Magazine
Questions arising from the June / July 2010 issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL21- 1 hour 30 minutes…
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Just in Case
What do you wish was the subject of a major judgment, stripping IT law of some of its uncertainties?…
Computer Fraud in Ireland
Pearse Ryan and Andrew Harbison discuss the law on computer fraud in Ireland and the law of dishonesty associated with it. The article casts considerable light on the practical realities of computer crime….