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The Conversion of Sex.com

April 30, 1998

What may turn out to be a milestone in legal thinking about the Internet is currently awaiting decision by the California Supreme Court. It concerns the rights to “sex.com”, the domain name for a Web site offering links to a variety of sex-related online services. David Marchese explains the background to the case, which is not unsurprisingly murky. He feels that it is the ingenuity of those involved in the case that raises wider issues about how the information society and the law interact….

UK – Outsourcing Settlement Terms Revealed In Full under FOIA

April 30, 1998

Richard Cumbley and Peter Church report and comment on the collision between traditional outsourcing settlement confidentiality and the new freedom of information regime….

From the Editor’s Chair

April 30, 1998

Earlier this month, the news broke that access could be gainedto a development version of the Statute Law Database. You can apply for access(see below) and I would certainly encourage you to do so. It is probablyinappropriate to review publicly what remains work in progress, but it is timeto focus on the future use of…

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Legal Aspects of Information Security Management

April 30, 1998

In internet commerce[1] where technology risks such as systems failure or attacks are particularly accentuated and the “risk turnaround time” is much faster, the need to design and develop a proactive and structured legal protection regime has become a corporate imperative. Zaid Hamzah points the way forward in designing and developing a legal risk management system in Internet commerce at both the strategic as well as the operational level that would protect enterprises from legal problems that might flow from information security risks….

BS7799 – Why is it important?

April 30, 1998

And why, asks Ian Mann of ECSC (e-commerce security consultants) is an IT security consultant contributing to a law publication?…

Defining the Rules of Engagement

April 30, 1998

Victoria Cooper thinks that the Cresswell Report underestimates the attractions of tape back-up….