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EU Data Protection Authorities Endorse Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Agreement

April 13, 2014

Joel Harrison reflects on the Article 29 Working Party’s endorsement of Microsoft’s agreement for cloud services, which he sees a very significant development for the cloud computing industry. This is partly because Microsoft is such a major vendor and its terms are of interest to so many, but also because the DPAs have always been very reticent about commenting on individual vendors’ terms and this may signal an important shift in approach…

Book Review: Cloud Computing Law

March 28, 2014

Laurence Eastham looks at Cloud Computing Law, edited by Christopher Millard, OUP 2013, 436 pp, £34.95, ISBN978-0-19-967168-7…

Augmented Reality: Goaties and Trolls

March 24, 2014

In her final instalment in her series of articles about augmented reality, Joanne Frears gives you a fearsome story of appetite and intrigue, aspiration and ambition, innovation and destruction….

Editorial

March 4, 2014

Tough Questions When writing introductions to articles for this issue, I found that I had to ration my use of the phrase ‘asks tough questions’. Two articles touching on data protection are prime examples. Lillian Pang and Peter Lee made me wonder whether the immense effort that is made to protect data properly reflects the…

Un-Safe Harbor: Is Safe Harbor an adequate means of protecting EU personal data transferred to the USA?

January 28, 2014

Kirsten Whitfield and Uchechi Okereke examine the health of the US Safe Harbor…

Cloud Computing: Geography or Technology – Virtualisation and Control

January 21, 2014

Kuan Hon examines the best approach to take when applying data protection rules in a cloud computing context. She argues that the current EU focus on location is inappropriate and that logical control is what counts….

Predictions 2014: IT Law

January 7, 2014

This is a selection of predictions for 2014 from expert IT lawyers. We also asked about surprises and IT law expectations that never were fulfilled. For the full set of predictions, see our online ‘Predictions 2014’ blog….

Predictions 2014: Legal IT and E-disclosure

January 7, 2014

This is a selection of predictions for 2014 from experts in the connected fields of IT for lawyers, law firm’s use of IT and e-disclosure. We also asked about surprises and tech expectations that never were fulfilled. For the full set of predictions, see our online ‘Predictions 2014’ blog….