Why you need to care about data quality during discovery
Lee Meyrick looks at how process and technology decisions determine data quality during eDiscovery…
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Litigation & DR
The 91-year-old Activist and the Angry Neighbour: the Limits on Police Retaining Personal Data
Harry Kinmonth reviews a recent Supreme Court judgment which considered the police use of personal data…
Beware of Bloatware
Chris Coughlan reflects on the data protection consequences of Lenovo’s Superfish scandal….
Data Retention: Supreme Court Ruling on Police Practice
The Supreme Court has given judgment in a case concerning the collection and retention by the police of electronic data about individuals and the balancing human rights concerns….
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Controlling, Lying and Blocking – Ways for the Individual to Win the Privacy Arms Race?
This is a version of Marion Oswald’s speech at the launch of the Centre for Law & Information Policy at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on 24 February 2015…
Legislation Alert
There is lots of new legislation affecting IT lawyers as IT law penetrates every corner of life. It is not easy to keep track. Here are some of the items that have come to my attention recently (somewhat slanted to criminal practice because of work focused on that area), with the odd moan about them thrown in….
Monetary Penalty Notice for Insurance Company
The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a monetary penalty notice in respect of the IT security failings of an insurance firm that led to hacked payment card details being used for fraud…
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Can We Trust Cryptocurrencies?
Mark Deem considers cryptocurrencies, trust and regulation…
Editorial
I like to think that I do curmudgeonly well. But, like Schwarzenegger doing comedy, I like the occasional stretch. I find myself currently playing the part of the uplifting and positive commentator on the way of the legal world. For while I remember a time when you could get into the pictures and buy a…
SCL Event Report: Annual Data Protection Update 2015
Alexander de Gaye reports on SCL’s Annual Data Protection Update, an event held at Fieldfisher on Wednesday 28 January 2015….
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