India’s New Privacy Laws
Stephen Mathias analyses important new laws which have an impact on all businesses operating in or having connections with India….
Cybersecurity
ACS Monetary Penalty Announced
The ICO has imposed a monetary penalty of £1,000 on the owner of ACS for lax IT security…
Feeling Secure?
What do Sony, Osama Bin Laden and my sister have in common?…
Back to Basics: Non-IP Warranties
In our latest article in the Back to Basics series, Toby Crick and Helen Rose look at the various warranties often found in technology contracts. They consider arguments made by suppliers and users in relation to a number of common warranties and look at some of the practicalities behind those debates. This article does not address warranties relating to intellectual property which will be covered in a separate article later in the series….
Editorial
Two big new initiatives from SCL over the last two months will surely not have passed you by. First, we had the launch of the scheme for certification and accreditation then we had the new SCL Directory, the directory of members on a searchable database, fully accessible to the public. The first two SCL IT…
Consumerisation – Nothing is New
Simon Kosminsky reflects on the fact that the ‘new wave’ of consumerisation is not really all that new, it has just taken on a new form. But he explains that it nevertheless presents a challenge that has to be met….
Watching Cloud Contracts Take Shape
Simon Bradshaw, Christopher Millard and Ian Walden recount the results of a survey into cloud computing contracts and examine a few of the issues brought into focus by the survey…
The Language of the Internet
Even the language of love alters according to time and place. Why should the language of the Internet always stay unaltered?…
Predictions 2011: Technology & Strategies for Lawyers – E-disclosure, E-evidence & Forensics
Each year we ask experts in a wide variety of fields for their views on the likely developments in the year ahead. This is a selection of the predictions published on the SCL web site that relate to technological developments that affect legal practice and the forecast changes for e-disclosure, electronic evidence and forensics…
Predictions 2011 – First Course
A substantial, warming and slightly spicy soup as a first course in the predictions banquet – predictions from Chris Marsden, John Yates, Peter Sommer, Lilian Edwards, Mike Taylor, Jan Durant, Stephen Mason, Shireen Smith, Bryan King, Joe Reevy and Nick Holmes. Don’t forget the amuse bouche posted on 30 November with the predictions from Kit Burden and Robert Buchan…