SIMs: Suitable Information Mollifies Subscribers?
Neil Brown draws lessons from a recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning pre-loaded SIM cards…
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Litigation & DR
Surveillance and Bulk Data Retention Judgment from the European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights has given judgment in a case brought to challenge elements of surveillance applying under the RIPA 2000. Although technically finding against the UK, it does not appear to materially affect the current surveillance regime…
EU Commission Proposal on Online Terrorist Content
The European Commission has published proposals for new legislation ‘to get terrorist content off the web, making sure that the same obligations are imposed in a uniform manner across the whole Union’….
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Scoping Exercise
Mark O’Conor reflects on SCL’s activities and looks forward to the forthcoming SCL Conference…
Editorial August/September 2018
Laurence Eastham looks at case law trends and worries about the wildness of the west…
Online courts: what will they look like?
Mark O’Conor, the SCL Chair, looks at recent developments in online justice and looks forward to an exciting event in which SCL is very much involved…
Could the English Courts Give Judgments in Bitcoin?
Looking across jurisdictions and back to the 18th century, Lawrence Akka QC and Henry Byam-Cook consider a question for the here and now…
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Commons Select Committee’s Interim Report on Disinformation and ‘fake news’
In a first interim report in its Disinformation and ‘fake news’ inquiry, the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has issued a series of stark warnings and made a series of recommendations….
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Cloud and Other Digital Services Providers – Security & Incident Notification Obligations under the UK NIS Regulations, and GDPR comparison
Dr W Kuan Hon explains the impact of the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018…
Latest Investigatory Powers Commencement
The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (Commencement No. 7 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2018 bring into force provisions in the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 relating to bulk acquisition warrants and bulk personal datasets and, to the extent not already commenced, provisions relating to the retention of communications data….