The Pirate Bay and ‘Making Available’
The CJEU has held that online sharing platforms may be infringing copyright by enabling those accessing material in a way which undermines copyright protection…
Intellectual Property
The SCL Annual Conference 2017: A Sketch
David Chaplin, the SCL’s Development Editor, offers some brief observations on last week’s outstanding Annual Conference…
Time to Speak up for Article 15
Graham Smith is one of the speakers at the SCL Conference in the session covering new trends in data interception, use and retention. While this piece from Graham does not reflect his input in that focused session, it is an important contribution to the much-needed debate on Internet freedoms….
Book Review: Collisions in the Digital Paradigm
Laurence Eastham reviews a new book from David J Harvey, Collisions in the Digital Paradigm: Law and Rule Making in the Internet Age (Hart Publishing; 401 pp: ISBN 978-1-50990-652-9)…
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SCL Student Essay Prize 2017 Winner
The winner of the SCL Essay Prize is Lottie Michael….
Book Review: Queer Privacy
Neil Brown reviews Sarah Jamie Lewis’s edited book ‘Queer Privacy’, and reflects on what lawyers and privacy advisors can do differently in light of its message….
Human Rights Judgment: Access to Computer Files Without Judicial Authorisation
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that granting police access to computer files containing child pornography material without prior judicial authorisation, in a non-emergency situation, violated the owner’s right to respect for his private life…
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Book Review: We Know All About You
Lorraine Chimbga reviews We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America
by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (OUP, 304 pp, £18.99) ISBN: 9780198749660…
Setting the Right Goals, in the Right Order
Laurence Eastham comments on the ICO’s strategic plan….
The GDPR and the Parallel Regime
As we prepare for the GDPR, Bob Miller thinks the time is right to remind us of the legal regime that will run in parallel with it and calls on the ICO to practise what it preaches….