This is the essay which won Philip Hutchinson the SCL Essay Prize 2009….
Read More… from Will Social Networking Services Survive Only at the Expense of Privacy?
Phight! Phight!
My new phavourite phing phrom Phorm….
Susan Byrne and Susan Boyle
The Jonathan Zittrain comparison: surely some mistake? Not at all….
Latest ECJ Ruling on Data Protection
The European Court of Justice has given judgment in College van burgemeester en wethouders van Rotterdam v M.E.E. Rijkeboer, a reference on Article 12 of Directive 95/46 (rights of access)…
April / May 2009 Edition of Computers & Law Magazine Online CPD Course
Questions arising from the April / May issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL16 – 1 hour…
Read More… from April / May 2009 Edition of Computers & Law Magazine Online CPD Course
Editorial
In the last few weeks, I have resolved on a number of occasions to cover a new development on the SCL Web site or to note it in the Editor’s Blog, only to find that it has become so widely covered in mainstream media that there seems at first glance to be nothing for a…
And the Winner Is . . .
SCL is delighted to announce the winner of the SCL Essay Prize 2009…
Communications Data Collection and Storage
The Home Office has published a consultation paper on the collection and storage of communications data. Views on the proposals outlined are sought by 20 July….
You’ll Be Sick and Sorry Later
The latest government proposals on data retention and storage remind me of ice cream, poor parenting and children…
Data Protection: Missing the Bigger Issue
In this opinion piece, Ian McDougall explains why he believes that the focus on data disasters and the technicalities of processing are obscuring the vision we need for a new way forward for data protection….