Royal Free and the Road to Hell
Sometimes a punishment is necessary – even when it’s pointless. Laurence Eastham joins the despair over the ICO’s approach on enforcement in light of the Royal Free/DeepMind ‘failure to comply’…
Sometimes a punishment is necessary – even when it’s pointless. Laurence Eastham joins the despair over the ICO’s approach on enforcement in light of the Royal Free/DeepMind ‘failure to comply’…
The Online Courts Hackathon was held over 24 hours on 1 and 2 July. Laurence Eastham reports on an exciting and uplifting experience….
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Mild rebuke for Royal Free after ‘serious shortcomings’ in provision of patient details to DeepMind…
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This essay from Daniel Zwi was one of two highly commended entries for the SCL Essay Prize 2017…
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This essay from Ella Castle was one of two highly commended entries for the SCL Essay Prize 2017…
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James Witherspoon reviews Courts, Privacy and Data Protection in the Digital Environment (Edward Elgar Publishing, 272 pp, £90, ISBN: 978 1 78471 870 1), a new book edited by Maja Brkan and Evangelia Psychogiopoulou…
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A new Article 29 Working Party Opinion has been published…
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that banning the mass publication of personal tax data in Finland did not violate the right to freedom of expression….
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Phil Lee reveals his top 5 gripes and lets off some steam as he identifies some of the issues that create GDPR-related stress for DP experts…
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The second edition of Tomorrow’s Lawyers, updated from its original 2013 publication, ought to be re-titled ‘I told you so’. Professor Susskind has been writing on the future of the legal profession for the past two decades, gaining the title of legal futurologist along the way. 2015’s ‘The Future of the Professions’ forecast a future…