This article from Simon Dawson examines the value in litigation of the hidden information (known as metadata) encoded into most electronic documents, illustrates this by a study based on a real case and finally discusses the circumstances in which an opposing party in litigation might be compelled to provide it….
Gmail, A9.com and Blinkx are examples of the new privacy implications of personalised online advertising and advanced search engine technology. Eva Wong from Coudert Bros explores the new threat and opportunity….
Intellectual Property lawyer Graeme Fearon of Thring Townsend reviews the APIG report and suggested amendments to the Computer Misuse Act 1990….
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The summer viewing of Big Brother enthralled and appalled. Hazel Randall looks at the show going on on your PC with the updates in Adware and Spyware, and other techniques for tracking what private and commercial PC users are doing….
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Bluejacking, Bluesnarfing and Bluetooth – William Betts has the Blues covered….
The SCL’s Internet Interest Group assembled an expert panel at Charles Russell to peer into the future of the Internet and the Web over the next five to ten years. Laurie Kaye of Laurence Kaye Solicitors, who was Panel Chairman and devised and organised the event, lent them the special SCL crystal ball….
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William Dutton reviews a series of well known IT legal aphorisms from the perspective of a social scientist. This is an edited version of his Keynote Address to the IFCLA Conference in July….
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Food for Thought This issue begins to reflect the July IFCLA Conference by including a selection of the papers which were presented there. I hope to include some of the other outstanding papers, both within these pages and on the SCL Web site, over the next few months. Some of the ideas which were raised…
Matthew Murphy gives a resumé of the current legal issues in the world’s most exciting economy….
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Although the accession countries have been swift to implement the data protection and e-privacy directives, a large majority have failed to implement them correctly in a number of important respects. Ironically, the areas of greatest departure are the same areas the Commission identified last year as the areas where the original 15 Member States had also fallen down. In a number of cases, the deficiencies are so great that the EU Member States are vulnerable to enforcement action by the EU Commission for failure to implement the directives as required. Richard Cumbley and Tanguy Van Overstraeten of Linklaters explain….