E-disclosure Survey Results
According to the latest Recommind survey, UK firms are still not ready for e-disclosure despite the increasing prevalence of relevant requests…
Litigation & DR
Criminalising Patent Infringement in the EU
Rob Jackson reviews a history of attempts to seek the criminalisation of patent rights, including recent moves by the EU Competitiveness Council, and considers the implications of such a change….
Editorial
When it first appeared as a twinkle in the Queen’s Speech, I never believed for one moment that the Digital Economy Bill could become the Digital Economy Act 2010. I was wrong. Of course, if we lived in a rational world, I would have been right. But the Act went through most of its legislative…
Eruption Latest
Grounded by an ash cloud of confusion? Stranded in ignorance and facing a profiteer’s inflated CPD rental bill? A benign eruption of SCL events offers you a safe and cost- effective passage to enlightenment….
Data Protection and Three Strikes in Ireland
A very interesting High Court judgment in Ireland has tackled the data protection implications of ISPs sharing data for the purpose of limiting illegal file-sharing…
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First PCC Censure for a Blog Post
The Press Complaints Commission has upheld a complaint about an entry by Rod Liddle in his blog for the Spectator….
Don’t Oversell: The Misrepresentation Problem
Michael Frisby extracts one clear message from BSkyB v EDS, a message that needs to be carefully digested: it can be a thin line between overselling and fraudulent misrepresentation…
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Does Your Firewall Have an Open Door?
Chris James covers firewalls, the risk to information security and data protection….
What Price Paid for Content?
Tom Lingard and Theo Varcoe review the various revenue-raising models that newspapers, and the publishing industry in general, are having to consider. They also look at the difficulties that may arise on enforcing payment for protected online content….
EDPS and PbD
The office of the European Data Protection Supervisor has been working overtime. In addition to its work on video surveillance guidelines, it published an Opinion on ‘Promoting trust in the information society by fostering data protection and privacy’ on 18 March. The focus is on privacy by design (PbD)…