The recent publication of an academic study’s findings on the use of AI to predict human rights case outcomes has garnered a great deal of media attention. SCL President Richard Susskind has added to the understanding of the issues that arise in an interview on BBC World….
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Lorna Woods reports on the recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union and explains its implications…
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The €1.06 billion fine imposed on Intel for abuse of a dominant position should be overturned according to Advocate General Wahl…
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The Competition and Markets Authority has announced it is investigating whether online gambling firms are treating their customers fairly…
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Laurence Eastham applauds the new ICO Code of Practice and wonders if the ICO is flying under the Brexit radar….
Darren Grayson Chng reports on the initial meeting of SCL Singapore. His article aims to provide a brief overview of the topics discussed, while going a little further into some of the intriguing points raised by the Chair and the panellists which are of universal application….
The Court of Justice of the European Union appears to have ruled that the operator of a website may have a legitimate interest in storing certain personal data relating to visitors to that website in order to protect itself against cyberattacks. It considers though that the dynamic internet protocol address of a visitor constitutes personal data, with respect to the operator of the website, if that operator has the legal means allowing it to identify the visitor concerned with additional information about him which is held by the internet access provider…
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Case reports and clarity This issue of the magazine is dominated by case reports. Since recent issues have been overflowing, it was an opportunity to catch up with developments in the courts, especially judgments from the Court of Justice of the European Union. Since I had the pleasure of trawling through many of these judgments,…
In Cartier International AG & Ors v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 658 five English ISPs (Sky, BT, EE, TalkTalk and Virgin) were appealing against orders made in late 2014 which required them to block or attempt to block access by their customers to certain target websites which were advertising and selling counterfeit copies…
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This is a selection of cases that have been covered on the SCL website but have not been dealt with elsewhere in this issue or previous issues. Fuller coverage and links to full judgments are available on the SCL website as are reports of a handful of other 2016 cases which we have not found space to cover in print…