Screen-scraping, Ryanair and Contracts
Catherine Stromdale considers the threat from Ryanair to cancel scraped flights. How can the way a contract comes into being affect its enforceability? Who will be left to deal with the losses arising?…
Litigation & DR
Data Retention Consultation
The Home Office has published a consultation paper calling for views on draft Electronic Communications Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2008…
Has Promoting Commercial Certainty Made the Law More Uncertain?
Simon Croall QC and Yash Kulkarni give an account of a crucial House of Lords judgment. They reflect on the ways in which this latest development in remoteness of damage will have clear impact on contractual disputes of all kinds, especially IT disputes….
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Typosquatting
John McKeown reports on a recent decision of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center involving domain names and Carphone Warehouse. 1…
New Report from MPs on Harmful Content and Video Games
The House of Commons Committee on Culture, Media and Sport has published its latest report. It includes firm views on user-generated content and ISP liability, social networking and privacy, ministerial responsibilities and games classification….
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Libel and Privacy on the Internet: Too Late for Regulation?
A number of recent libel and privacy decisions have highlighted the dangers of an unregulated Internet. Ashley Hurst highlights some of those dangers and suggests an approach which would reduce them….
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Autonomous Robots and the Law
Dr Fernando Barrio considers the problems which will be posed for the law by the development of autonomous robots and, by way of an example, looks more closely at how they may be treated under the law on sexual offences….
Data Security and Human Rights
A decision in the European Court of Human Rights may have profound implications for data protection systems within State control….
Criminal Records and Data Protection Principles: Police v Information Commissioner
A new decision of the Information Tribunal supports the supremacy of the data protection principles, includes clear criticism of the failure of the police to grapple properly with the data protection principles and dismisses arguments that the ACPO code on retention of data constitutes a valid code for the PNC….
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Data Sharing Review Report
The Thomas/Walport report on data sharing has now been published….