Justice Committee Report on ICO
The House of Commons Justice Committee has published a report on the functions, powers and resources of the Information Commissioner…
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Wide-eyed
It is facile to say that IT law is international in its scope. But do IT lawyers wear jurisdictional blinkers anyway?…
Tamiz v Google: the Court of Appeal Verdict
Graham Smith gives us his take on the recent Court of Appeal judgment in Tamiz v Google. This article is taken from his Cyberleagle blog at www.cyberleagle.com….
Under the Surface
Paul Mew asks how the new Microsoft tablet compares to Apple’s business–world dominating iPad…
The Aerial Gaze: Regulating Domestic Drones in the UK
Lachlan Urquhart considers the various issues raised by drones…
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Security for Sub-licensees?
Rod J. Cowper, Ben Goodger and Ellen Hughes-Jones ask if there is new security for sub-licensees. The question arises following a High Court ruling that a sub-licence for the use of software survived the termination of the head licence under which it was granted. This article appears in the April edition of In-House Lawyer. It is a more detailed analysis than the article from the same authors, Sub-licence Survivor, which appeared on this site last month….
SCL Meeting Report: Tamiz v Google: Where does it leave ISPs and clause 5?
Jack Gilbert reports on the meeting of the SCL Media Group on 14 March 2013, which focused on the effect of the recent decision in Tamiz v Google on the liability of ISPs and the intermediary defence under the Defamation Bill…
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Pirate Bay and Human Rights
To no great surprise, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that The Pirate Bay co-founders’ criminal conviction for assisting copyright infringement on the Internet was justified…
Latest Data Protection Prosecution
The ICO has prosecuted a medical receptionist under the Data Protection Act 1998, s 55…
Apps: Article 29 Working Party Opinion Published
The Article 29 Working Party has published a detailed Opinion on apps and their data protection dangers….
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