The EU-US Safe Harbour Decision is Dead. Long Live its Successor?
Julia Hörnle analyses the Schrems judgment in depth and considers its implications…
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Draft Investigatory Powers Bill: Commons Committee Inquiry
The House of Commons Committee hearing evidence on the draft Investigatory Powers Bill has launched a short inquiry that will take written evidence…
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Editorial
Case law changes and the GDPR The CJEU judgment in Case C-362/14 Maximillian Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner came very late in the course of preparation for this issue. But so much was said about it so quickly that it would have been possible to have covered it in an article. I felt that the…
SCL Annual Lecture: Dame Wendy Hall
Laurence Eastham reports on the Lecture from Dame Wendy Hall under the title ‘The Evolution of the Web: From the Wild West to a Brave New World?’…
SCL Event Report: Cloud computing for financial institutions: Adopting cloud computing solutions in a regulated environment
Dawn Ying reports from the SCL seminar hosted by Mayer Brown International LLP which asked ‘Can service providers accommodate the regulatory obligations and internal procedures for the financial service industry or do banks have to reassess their expectations of the cloud?’…
Reselling Software Licences
Following the UsedSoft ruling, Robin Fry asks where we are now…
Cloud, Patents and Semantics
Why do patent professionals spend so much time trying to find the right words to describe an invention? Nick Reeve shows how the story of cloud computing technology, and the words used to describe it, provide an explanation….
Book Review: Cloud Computing: A Practical Introduction to the Legal Issues
‘It’s amazing how they can transmit the internet through the clouds, isn’t it? What jurisdiction are they even in?’ I checked that my friend wasn’t in fact referring to Google’s Loon project or Facebook’s solar-powered drones (where these are pertinent questions[[http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/can-we-trust-google-with-the-stratosphere/278797/]]) and then offered to lend him this book: Renzo Marchini’s ‘Cloud Computing: A Practical…
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What’s the Big Deal? Big Data in the Financial Services Sector
Jonny Emmanuel considers the big questions surrounding Big Data…
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Smart City, Surveillance City
Too often a technology’s capacity and curiosity about its limits leads to an unremitting focus on achieving a goal without considering the desirability of the goal. Smart Cities may be no different. David Murakami Wood offers a refreshing focus on the links between smart cities and surveillance….