The European Data Protection Supervisor has published his official Opinion on the reform package and the Cloud Legal Project has published its response to the MoJ’s Call for Evidence on the proposals….
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Graham Smith offers some thought-provoking reflections on the judgment in the recent Google libel case and considers its importance for online defamation claims. This article is taken from his Cyberleagle blog at www.cyberleagle.com….
The High Court has given answers to some of the questions concerning liability for online defamation arising from alleged libel in comments attached to a post on Google’s Blogger.com. Was Google a publisher? Was it protected by the Defamation Act and/or the E-commerce Directive? Laurence Eastham summarises key points from the judgment….
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The Court of Justice has given judgment in Football Dataco v Yahoo and has set out some guidance on when a database can be protected by copyright…
The exchange between the Article 29 Working Party and Google about its new privacy policy has heated up…
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Convictions in different courts have led to the release of statements from the ICO…
There may be a rational argument for more severe penalties to underpin data protection enforcement. This wasn’t it….
FAST is asking if companies have enforceable policies in place to ensure software compliance and manage the software lifecycle in the BYOD world…
The High Court has ruled that both the owners and the users of The Pirate Bay infringe UK copyrights….
SCL Forum Articles Five of this issue’s crop are articles stemming from the SCL Policy Forum held in September. Chaired by Professor Lilian Edwards of the University of Strathclyde and hosted by Mark Turner of Herbert Smith LLP, the event itself was an eye-opener and a brain troubler (in the best possible sense). But we…