Scottish Society for Computers and Law Chairman, Iain G. Mitchell QC has been appointed as the next United Kingdom representative on the IT Committee of the Bars and Law Societies of Europe for a period of three years….
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Eduardo Ustaran analyses the EU Commission’s newly published strategy document which contains its proposals for strengthening EU data protection rules….
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For years web searching and Google have been synonymous – now the searching is to be through Google’s own data. What intrigues me about the EU Commission’s investigation is how they are going to find the relevant material….
A substantial, warming and slightly spicy soup as a first course in the predictions banquet – predictions from Chris Marsden, John Yates, Peter Sommer, Lilian Edwards, Mike Taylor, Jan Durant, Stephen Mason, Shireen Smith, Bryan King, Joe Reevy and Nick Holmes. Don’t forget the amuse bouche posted on 30 November with the predictions from Kit Burden and Robert Buchan…
In any eDiscovery project, documents can reside on a multitude of data sources collected from many different custodians. The proliferation of electronic documents poses issues of volume which contribute towards increased cost and time requirements in an IT forensic investigation. Andrew Pimlott gives a practical illustration of how combining traditional IT forensics analysis techniques with eDiscovery tools and processes can add value to an investigation….
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The Information Commissioner has served the first monetary penalty notices for serious data protection breaches…
The probable final text of the international trade agreement ACTA has been published online. It has importance for the enforcement of IP rights and especially for IPR enforcement in the digital environment….
Dervish Tayyip identifies the key problems for cloud computing from an IT lawyer’s perspective and suggests a number of attainable solutions. These are his personal views and not those of Microsoft for whom he is head of UK Legal….
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What a combination: the judicial review of aspects of the Digital Economy Act, the inquiry by the Parliamentary Committee on Culture, Media and Sport into Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Online and the grand government review of IP laws to ‘make them fit for the internet age’. All this must mean something….
Sandra Potter and Phil Farrelly look at cloud computing generally, and the issues pertaining to e-disclosure and cross-border conflicts in particular…