New Encryption guidance published by the ICO
Plain English Guidance aims to help organisations understand the benefits of encryption…
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Met Police’s use of gang member intelligence gathering database breaches DPA 1998
The ICO has issued an Enforcement Notice after concerns raised by Amnesty International…
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The Long Goodbye
Laurence Eastham looks back at almost 25 years working with SCL…
ICO’s Computer Misuse Act Prosecution
A six-month prison sentence has been imposed on a motor industry employee following the first Computer Misuse Act prosecution by the ICO…
ICO Report on its Investigation into the Use of Data Analytics in Political Campaigns
The ICO’s wide-ranging updating report to Parliament, including coverage of the data protection aspects of the actions of Cambridge Analytica, Aggregate IQ, Facebook and Leave.EU, has been published…
Managing Data Breaches – Notification and Risk Management
In the last from our Tech Law Masterclass series, Nigel Miller provides a guide to the provisions of the GDPR that are most relevant when a data breach is believed to have occurred…
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Farewell
In his last editorial prior to retirement from SCL work on 16 November, Laurence Eastham reviews his last issue as Editor, offers his thanks and wishes all well…
Contract Law – in Retrospect and in Prospect
For the last ten years Richard Stephens has provided an annual update on contract law for the SCL and also offers it by way of internal training for law firms and in-house legal departments. That puts him in a superb position to take a look at what has happened over the last decade and think about the major themes in contracts and contract law over those years. This is the latest in our series of articles from the Tech Law Masterclass appearing in the October/November issue of Computers & Law….
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Whither FinTech? Whither AI?
In another teaser from the forthcoming issue of Computers & Law, Simon Deane-Johns asks some searching questions about short-term problems and long-term challenges…
Vicarious Liability for Data Breaches after CA Judgment in Morrisons
Robin Hopkins analyses the position following the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of Morrisons’ appeal…
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