SCL Event Report: International Management of Data Protection
Georgina Fraser reports on the meeting on 2 July hosted by Fox Williams LLP…
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SCL Event Report: Data Privacy and Online Journalism
Emma Cross reports from the SCL seminar hosted by Olswang LLP which asked ‘Has the DPA been stretched too far?’…
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SCL Event Report: Beginners’ Guide to the Digital Marketplace
David Egan reports on the first session hosted by the SCL Junior Lawyer’s Group, an event held at Bird & Bird on 22 June 2015….
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Smart City, Surveillance City
Too often a technology’s capacity and curiosity about its limits leads to an unremitting focus on achieving a goal without considering the desirability of the goal. Smart Cities may be no different. David Murakami Wood offers a refreshing focus on the links between smart cities and surveillance….
Privacy, Publication of Images and Article 8: New Supreme Court Judgment
The Supreme Court has supported the publication of a photograph of a juvenile suspected of involvement in rioting…
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Drones: New Article 29 Working Party Opinion
The Article 29 Working Party has issued a new Opinion on the privacy and data implications of the use of drones…
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Book Review: Jane Fae’s ‘Taming the Beast’
Neil Brown draws out a number of themes likely to be of interest to Internet lawyers from Jane Fae’s recent publication ‘Taming the Beast’, which critiques the UK legal framework for the regulation of pornography, obscenity and indecent images of children, and explores the challenges posed by the Internet, and the current technical approaches to filtering and blocking these types of content…
PSD2 Evolved
Simon Deane-Johns updates his review of the revised proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the internal market in light of a supposedly final text….
Smart Cities: Creative Compliance and the Rise of ‘Designers as Regulators’
In the second in our series of articles on Smart Cities, Lachlan Urquhart and Dr Ewa Luger address the disconnect between DP regulation and systems design. Their research in this area may have identified one route to ‘creative compliance’….
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The Promise and Perils of Smart Cities
In the first of a series of articles on the Smart Cities theme, Rob Kitchin introduces some of the key concepts and issues. This article will be featured in the June/July issue of Computers & Law, which will focus on Smart Cities from a range of perspectives, with a view to giving technology lawyers a wider understanding of one of the most important developments of this decade and the decades to come….