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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Mark Deem considers cryptocurrencies, trust and regulation…
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…
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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Robert Clark, Pearse Ryan and Niall Donnelly look at the latest position on trade secrets. This is an updated and fuller version of an article posted earlier….
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Data Protection and Home CCTV According to the CJEU, the Data Protection Directive applies to a video recording made with a surveillance camera installed by a person on his family home and directed towards the public footpath. The Court ruled in Case 212/13 František Ryneš v Ú?ad pro ochranu osobních údaj? that those installing domestic…
The High Court has given judgment in a case where the Home Office challenged the arbitration award in favour of the contractors charged with providing the e-borders technology…
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A new report suggests the establishment of a dedicated online court and a radical new approach to the avoidance and settlement of disputes…
Ben Trust and Sophie Papaevripides cast light on the rules that apply, and which may apply, in what may prove to be one of the most exciting markets for mobile payments…
Professor Chris Marsden explains what is behind the Openlaws.eu project and explores the current landscape of access to law in the UK….