A former manager of a health service based at a council-run leisure centre in Southampton has been prosecuted by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for unlawfully obtaining sensitive medical information relating to over 2,000 people. Paul Hedges took the information hoping to use the data for a new fitness company he was setting up. He…
In the unlikely context of insolvency proceedings, the High Court in Northern Ireland has ruled on a claim to confidentiality in a posting on Facebook…
The EU Commission has sent a Statement of Objections to Motorola Mobility relating to its potential misuse of mobile phone standard-essential patents…
Is cookie compliance going to hamper innovation such as personalisation? In a forthcoming SCL meeting, worlds collide and the resulting compound could be gold for IT lawyers….
Richard Harrison believes that the new costs management process fails to recognise litigation realities and puts far too much faith in Precedent H…
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The Defamation Act 2013 and the Crime and Courts Act 2013 are now published…
Is Google getting off lightly in its likely settlement with the EU Commission on search?…
The Department for Culture. Media & Sport has published its proposals ‘to ensure small blogs are exempt from exemplary damages and costs incentives for membership of a press regulator’…
With litigation and internal investigations always at least conceivable, and perhaps just round the corner, Caroline Jan considers ways to manage data risks so as to limit the damage caused by a sudden crisis…
The Office of Fair Trading has announced that it is to begin an investigation into free children’s web and app-based games. Includes comment from Jas Purewal and Vanessa Barnett….