Data Retention: 35-year Retention Policy Upheld In a judicial review action, R (C) v Northumberland County Council & Anor [2015] EWHC (Admin) 2134, the Administrative Court (Simon J) has ruled that the data retention policy of Northumberland County Council is lawful. The claimant (C) felt that he and his family had been the subject of…
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….
A High Court judgment has rejected a subject-access request served on solicitors…
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The IPO is running a consultation on proposals to increase sentences for online copyright infringement…
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In another in our series of articles inspired by the recent SCL Technology Law Futures Conference, Rob Buckingham looks at the reality of developments in the UK concerning robotics and autonomous systems, in the context of the coming explosion in the applications of AI…
Are you a service provider dealing with personal data? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Especially (but not only) if you’re an IaaS/PaaS cloud provider. Kuan Hon explains….
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Rosemary Jay identifies areas of complexity and various data protection conundrums arising from UK opt-outs…
Fad, fashion or durable? Sarah Pearce has fashioned an article that looks at the trend towards wearables…
The Court of Justice of the European Union has made an important ruling in a case concerning patents in the telecoms sector that might have some implications in technology patent negotiations generally…
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Amandeep Singh, Milan Joshi and Steve Clough explain tokenisation and how it fits into the payment ecosystem…