The Supreme Court has given judgment in the long-running dispute concerning the use by various PR companies of links to coverage of their clients in newspapers and whether their use required a licence from the Newspaper Licensing Agency. The judgment is a bit of a damp squib, ending up with a reference to the CJEU….
With litigation and internal investigations always at least conceivable, and perhaps just round the corner, Caroline Jan considers ways to manage data risks so as to limit the damage caused by a sudden crisis…
Ruth Baker looks back on her time as SCL’s kingpin as she retires after 25 years with the Society. See the end of the article for a selection from some of the tributes paid to Ruth’s work for SCL. A pdf of the version of this article which appears in the April/May issue of Computers & Law can be downloaded from the panel opposite….
Alastair Morrison repeats his warning for those using Windows XP – still a substantial proportion of small law firm users….
Susan Atkinson and Gabrielle Benefield analyse recent research and draw disturbing conclusions about the ‘Contract Model’…
Dr Benjamin Farrand asks: can you be greater than the sum of your parts? He considers just some of the socio-legal problems with Human Enhancement Technologies…
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Scott Allardyce reports on the SCL 40th Anniversary Lecture from Professor Nigel Shadbolt. A podcast of the Lecture is now available on the site….
If you count software bots as robots then robots are already being used to deceive and exploit people who mistake them for humans. Miranda Mowbray enlightens you….
Julia Hörnle looks at a German case concerning the application of EU data protection law to foreign service providers and similar questions arising elsewhere in the EU, all of which raise issues about what amounts to the right kind of establishment…
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Paul Mew asks how the new Microsoft tablet compares to Apple’s business–world dominating iPad…