Geo-blocking Enforcement
The UK Geo-Blocking (Enforcement) Regulations have now been published…
Litigation & DR
The SCL Sir Brian Neill Lecture
The Inaugural SCL Sir Brian Neill Lecture is to be given by Shannon Salter on ‘Can Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Humanize the Justice System?’…
ICO Report on its Investigation into the Use of Data Analytics in Political Campaigns
The ICO’s wide-ranging updating report to Parliament, including coverage of the data protection aspects of the actions of Cambridge Analytica, Aggregate IQ, Facebook and Leave.EU, has been published…
Abusive and Offensive Online Communications: Law Reform Call
The Law Commission has published its Scoping Report assessing the state of the law concerning abusive and offensive online communications…
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Managing Data Breaches – Notification and Risk Management
In the last from our Tech Law Masterclass series, Nigel Miller provides a guide to the provisions of the GDPR that are most relevant when a data breach is believed to have occurred…
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Vicarious Liability for Data Breaches after CA Judgment in Morrisons
Robin Hopkins analyses the position following the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of Morrisons’ appeal…
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Cracking the Code
In a further preview of our Tech Law Masterclass, here is Rosemary Jay on the role of codes of practice under the Data Protection Act 2018….
When to Conduct DPIAs?
Kuan Hon analyses the EDPB’s first set of consistency opinions on national DPIA lists…
The Regulated End of Internet Law, and the Return to Computer and Information Law?
It seemed unfair to hang on to this article from Professor Chris Marsden, another in our Tech Law Masterclass series for the October/November issue, when Internet regulation is such a hot topic. Chris looks back at the Internet’s legal history, with a view to helping us to move forward in an informed manner…
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CJEU Judgment on Accessing Personal Data for the Purpose of Investigating Less Serious Crime
According to the Court of Justice of the European Union, criminal offences that are not particularly serious may justify access to personal data retained by providers of electronic communications services provided that that access does not constitute a serious infringement of privacy…