DRIPA Unlawful
A High Court judgment has found that the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 fails to comply with fundamental rights…
A High Court judgment has found that the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 fails to comply with fundamental rights…
Emma Cross reports from the SCL seminar hosted by Olswang LLP which asked ‘Has the DPA been stretched too far?’…
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Roger Bickerstaff sees a need for Tech lawyers to get more involved in the development of the regulation that affects their core work…
Jonny Emmanuel considers the big questions surrounding Big Data…
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Lisa Downs expands on her contribution to the SCL Technology Law Futures Conference with a warning on control…
David Egan reports on the first session hosted by the SCL Junior Lawyer’s Group, an event held at Bird & Bird on 22 June 2015….
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This article draws on Neil Brown’s contribution to the SCL’s Technology Law Futures Conference, in which he mused on the parallel between today’s concerns about the impact of technologies and those of the Luddites in the 19th century, and floated the idea of a ‘human impact assessment’….
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Questions arising from the Junel/July 2015 issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL:OC32 – CPD: 1 hour 30 minutes…
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Too often a technology’s capacity and curiosity about its limits leads to an unremitting focus on achieving a goal without considering the desirability of the goal. Smart Cities may be no different. David Murakami Wood offers a refreshing focus on the links between smart cities and surveillance….
The principles which underpin the Smart Cities initiatives are rarely seen as applicable to smaller communities but, as Branka Dimitrijevic shows, they are often equally valid in such contexts…
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