The next time you find yourself complaining that e-mails seem to take forever to arrive, keep in mind that this may actually be true – at least from a legal perspective. Joel Harrison looks at the implications of a recent Court of Appeal judgment….
Christelle Coslin and Christine Gateau explain the significance of important 2012 judgments in the French Supreme Court, which ruled that there is no obligation on hosting providers in France to ensure that notified content is not later re-posted online by its users…
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It has been the best of times; it has been the worst of times. On the one hand, we have had moves towards open data that saw the G8 leaders sign up to the Open Data Charter, some very positive Government responses to the Shakespeare Review of Public Sector Information and impressive commitments to co-operative…
The MoJ announces that ‘digital courtrooms’ are to be rolled out nationally…
There are to be specific rules for consumers to be notified when telecoms personal data is lost or stolen in EU…
Google faces further action from the ICO over wi-fi data collection…
The DPP has published final guidelines for prosecutions involving social media communications…
The CNIL has ordered Google to comply with the French Data Protection Act, within three months. Other DPAs are proceeding with the concerted action agreed by the Article 29 Working Party…
Anonymized data? Maybe not so anonymous. Marion Oswald explains how anonymization offers a real challenge to lawyers and that they might not always be best equipped to deal with it…
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G8 leaders signed the Open Data Charter at their summit in Northern Ireland…