For many years the magazine reported on SCL events but these are now found only online. But we worry that many members are missing out on memorable and useful training opportunities. So here are two reports on events from September. Annie Clarke reports on the SCL Big Data Masterclass, Big Data & Digital: competition, consumer protection and other challengesand James Henderson reports on the sixth module in SCL’s Foundation of IT Law, Cloud Computing….
Laurence Eastham reports on some judgments published in September arising from a few leading cases from the Court of Justice and European Court of Human Rights that may have an impact on IT law practice…
The names we give things matter and new government legislation does not do what it says on the tin….
Simon Deane-Johns reviews the revised proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the internal market…
Proposals to create the new offence of ‘disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress’ have now been published…
It may feel like a decade since we had that RtbF judgment in ‘Google Spain’ but it has been just six months. It has been all too easy to be distracted by the wide-ranging and sometimes overy philosohical debates on the topic. Andres Guadamuz takes a very welcome look at the judgment’s application in practice. It is essential reading for anyone contemplating attending the London session of the Google Advisory Council….
John O’Connor outlines the latest position in the ‘Microsoft Warrant case’ where the Cloud provider was ordered by a US Federal Court to produce its customer’s private e-mail content even though it was stored exclusively outside the USA…
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The Crown Prosecution Service has updated its guidance for prosecutors on ‘revenge pornography’…
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Darin Thompson continues his series of articles on online dispute resolution. In his fourth article in his series, he touches on AI, monitoring and the need for a multidisciplinary approach to design….
Darin Thompson continues his series of articles on online dispute resolution. In this third article in his series, he looks both at service channels and system design options before turning his attention to identity, confidentiality, privacy and security….
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