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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The winner of the SCL Essay Prize is Lottie Michael….
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….
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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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…
Laurence Eastham comments on the ICO’s strategic plan….
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….
The 11th module in the Foundations of IT Law programme was ‘Renegotiation and Disputes’. The seminar, chaired by James Farrell, a partner in the Disputes Division of Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, set out some of the key points that both contentious and non-contentious lawyers should have in mind in relation to disputes in the IT…
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Neil Brown takes a detailed look at the scope of the Digital Economy Act 2017’s age verification obligations, and the various actors upon which they fall….
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The EU Commission has fined Facebook €110 million for providing misleading information about its WhatsApp takeover…