Questions Raised over Children’s Websites and apps
Data protection agencies concerned by use of personal information…
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Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Fresh Starts and Freshening Skills
Roger Bickerstaff offers a welcome and has some suggestions for self-improvement…
ASA Ruling on Children’s Games
The Advertising Standards Authority has released details of rulings re online children’s games…
What are the Security Risks for Law Firms Using Windows 10?
Robert Rutherford takes a positive view of the new Microsoft operating system…
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Cases Round-up
Data Retention: 35-year Retention Policy Upheld In a judicial review action, R (C) v Northumberland County Council & Anor [2015] EWHC (Admin) 2134, the Administrative Court (Simon J) has ruled that the data retention policy of Northumberland County Council is lawful. The claimant (C) felt that he and his family had been the subject of…
Editorial
This issue includes a number of articles that arise from or are inspired by the SCL Technology Law Futures Conference, which was hosted and sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills in June. I hope that the next issue of the magazine will have further material arising from that Conference. I am grateful to those involved and…
The HTML5 Battery API
Neil Brown, Rebecca Collard and Micheál Ó Floinn comment on the news that functionality within the HTML5 standard may allow surreptitious tracking of users….
Open Season on Service Providers? The General Data Protection Regulation Cometh…
Are you a service provider dealing with personal data? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Especially (but not only) if you’re an IaaS/PaaS cloud provider. Kuan Hon explains….
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Age and Online Access
Limiting online access to some web sites is terribly complicated, but can we please start by making it a little simpler…
Wearable Tech – A Passing Fashion?
Fad, fashion or durable? Sarah Pearce has fashioned an article that looks at the trend towards wearables…