Payment Card Digital Security Changes
Pearse Ryan, Andrew Harbison and Anne O’Donovan guide you through recent changes to the PCI Digital Security Standard which reflect learning from large-scale hacking attempts…
Litigation & DR
Has the Future Arrived?
Professor Richard Susskind’s ground-breaking book, The Future of Law, is now 20 years old. How have the radical predictions he made in that book fared? The SCL Annual Lecture, presented on Thursday 6 October was his chance to let us know and David Chaplin here attempts to summarise Richard’s conclusions….
Whose personal data is it anyway?
David Hart QC looks at a recent High Court judgment where the data protection and privacy rights of a doctor under GMC investigation clashed with those of his patient…
Algorithms, Social Media and Mental Health
Heike Felzmann and Rónán Kennedy address many of the issues surrounding the use of algorithms to assess mental health from public social media contributions, including some legal and ethical concerns…
‘Durable Medium’ and Providing Information under the PSD
Chris Finney looks at a recent Attorney General’s Opinion and sees it as a useful prompt for financial services organisations to review their compliance with their duty to provide information to customers….
Read More… from ‘Durable Medium’ and Providing Information under the PSD
SCL Event Report: Foundations of IT Law – Risk, Cyber and Computer Misuse
Quentin Tannock reports on the latest event in the Foundations of IT Law series (Module 7 – Cycle 2), held on 14 September 2016 and hosted by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (Europe) LLP….
Read More… from SCL Event Report: Foundations of IT Law – Risk, Cyber and Computer Misuse
Book Review: Celebrity and Royal Privacy, the Media and the Law
Laurence Eastham reviews Professor Robin Callender Smith’s book, published by Sweet & Maxwell in December 2015 (ISBN: 9780414050877, £175, 563 pp)…
Read More… from Book Review: Celebrity and Royal Privacy, the Media and the Law
EU and Canada PNR Agreement Invalid
The proposed agreement for the exchange of passenger name record data between the EU and Canada has been described as incompatible with EU fundamental rights by Advocate General Mengozzi as it is currently drafted…
Editorial
This issue has a special focus on algorithms, government and the law which I hope will awaken an interest in the topic among SCL members. I am very grateful to John Danaher and Rónán Kennedy for their help in producing these articles, which arise from a seminar organised by Galway University. For reasons of space…
Internet Giants and Other Fairy Tales
When I find myself on the verge of defending Google, Facebook and Twitter, I take a deep breath, a strong drink and decide it’s best to sleep on it. That’s what I did yesterday. But I am afraid that, even after a day of sunshine, I still feel the need to come to their defence….