Jonathan Palmer reviews an uncomfortable history and looks to an interesting future, while creating his very own patentability scale….
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Lord Mandelson waters down controversial Clause 17 of the Digital Economy Bill
UK government publishes amendments to Digital Economy Bill that significantly water down the powers proposed to be given to the Secretary of State to enable amendment of UK copyright law….
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Civil Monetary Penalties for Data Breaches
Following a positive response to its consultation, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed that the new monetary penalties regime will come into effect on 6 April 2010….
Do We Need a Constitution for the Information Age?
Mark Turner examines the defects in existing systems for agreeing international obligations of the kind that are vital to the flowering of the information age. The disintermediation of government leads him to suggest a constitutional convention for the information age….
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Immobile Technology
The snow must be a welcome boost for advocates of home working. This post is aimed at those for whom home working is something of a novelty….
Predictions 2010: Thirteenth Post
Pearse Ryan offers a potpourri of predictions for the year ahead from the Irish perspective.
There is still time to send your predictions for 2010 or to add comments to the many predictions that we have published to date…
SCL Responds on Custodial Sentences for Data Misuse
SCL has submitted its response to the Ministry of Justice following the call for views on the implementation of the power to impose custodial sentences for certain offences under the Data Protection Act 1998….
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Predictions: Twelfth Post
The 12 days of Christmas may be over but it’s still Predictions season. Paul Heritage-Redpath, Product Manager – IRIS Law Business, provides his predictions for 2010 and beyond.
There is still time to send your predictions for 2010 or to add comments to the many predictions that we have published to date…
Why Does This Have to Be So Difficult?
Joel Harrison bemoans the unnecessary hurdles placed in the way of transfers to data processors outside the EEA. He suggests a way to end the ‘burden’ on gleeful bureaucrats and ease the life of the data protection lawyer….
Data Protection: The New Technical and Political Environment
Ian Brown paints a picture of a rapidly changing data protection landscape, with the dangers arising from technical revolutions and political adjustments in the foreground…
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