Modern Slavery and Supply Chains
David Lowe outlines new legal requirements which apply in the UK from October 2015…
Litigation & DR
Reselling Software Licences
Following the UsedSoft ruling, Robin Fry asks where we are now…
Forgetting and Futility
The latest ICO enforcement notice, arising under the ‘right to be forgotten’, seems like a futile gesture….
EU-US Umbrella Agreement on Data relating to Criminal Offences
The long-running EU-US data protection ‘Umbrella agreement’ negotiations have been finalised and the agreement has been initialled….
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Motorman and Sensitive Personal Data
The Information Commissioner’s appeal against a decision of the First-tier Tribunal has been unsuccessful….
Questions Raised over Children’s Websites and apps
Data protection agencies concerned by use of personal information…
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Fresh Starts and Freshening Skills
Roger Bickerstaff offers a welcome and has some suggestions for self-improvement…
Subject-access Requests: Crime Exemption, Proportionality and Procedure
The High Court has again been called upon to rule on a disputed subject-access request in a case which has most unusual facts and which raises some difficult procedural issues…
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Cases Round-up
Data Retention: 35-year Retention Policy Upheld In a judicial review action, R (C) v Northumberland County Council & Anor [2015] EWHC (Admin) 2134, the Administrative Court (Simon J) has ruled that the data retention policy of Northumberland County Council is lawful. The claimant (C) felt that he and his family had been the subject of…
The HTML5 Battery API
Neil Brown, Rebecca Collard and Micheál Ó Floinn comment on the news that functionality within the HTML5 standard may allow surreptitious tracking of users….