Nico van Eijk, a presenter at the SCL Forum 2012, relates a story that illustrates the dangers associated with digital certificates and suggests improvements to the relevant regime….
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Pearse Ryan, Claire O’Brien and Andrew Harbison outline and comment on the new legislation in Ireland which aims to target white collar crime and cybercrime in particular…
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A set of predictions, mainly from practising IT lawyers but with a few academics too, which range widely but include predictions on the developments expected in IT law….
Just as we started with a set of predictions from one firm (DLA Piper), we are closing (probably) with a set from lawyers at CMS Cameron McKenna LLP. Even if you are fed up with predictions by now, it is worth making an effort for this set of perceptive forecasts that go outside our normal comfort zone….
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Steve Ross tells us what issues business want dealt with in the European Commission’s standardised terms and conditions for cloud services, and why….
Faye Weedon reports on the SCL Seminar held on 3 December that reflected a wide range of different European perspectives…
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James Taylor reports on the first SCL Question Time – “Industry Interrogates Private Practice”, which took place on 13 November…
The European Network and Information Security Agency has compiled a report ‘The right to be forgotten – between expectations and practice’ which it published on 20 November….
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Not everyone who talks about cloud computing seems to have grasped the basics but it is tough to assess the legal risks without a decent understanding. Lillian Pang aims to improve understanding of the cloud and the issues that arise from its use….
Kuan Hon and Christopher Millard particularise the many faces of cloud computing and warn of the dangers of pretending that each matches old outsourcing profiles when determining how to regulate….
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