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….
Litigation & DR
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)…
The Internet and Criminal Jurisdiction
Julia Hörnle provides a review of the Court of Appeal judgment in R v Sheppard and Whittle, which focused on the test to determine whether the English courts have jurisdiction in a criminal case involving a foreign web site….
EU – Controllers and Processors: It’s all about Essential Means
The Article 29 Working Party recently published an Opinion on two of the key concepts under the Data Protection Directive – ‘data controller’ and ‘data processor’. Tanguy Van Overstraeten and Richard Cumbley explain that the distinction between the two has a number of practical implications including determining who is liable to comply with data protection law and whether processing clauses are required….
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Conservative Party Technology Manifesto Launched
The Conservative Party launched its Technology Manifesto on 11 March. The Manifesto includes a number of proposals of special interest to IT lawyers….
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Disclosure: The Proposed Rule Changes
Clive Freedman brings readers up to date on the new proposals for disclosure stemming from the Jackson Report and on the latest developments on the long-standing proposals for a new Practice Direction on e-disclosure…
Disclosure: The ESI Questionnaire’s Debut
The new draft Practice Direction on e-disclosure included a draft questionnaire on ESI sources. A newly published judgment from Senior Master Whitaker includes the questionnaire and constitutes the first known example of its use as one element in case management. It has yet to be adopted by the Rule Committee and had not previously been published for voluntary use….