The Supreme Court has considered the principles involved when making a Norwich Pharmacal order and whether disclosure of personal data is proportionate in the context of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, Article 8…
Read More… from Disclosure of Personal Data and Proportionality: Supreme Court Judgment
The European Network and Information Security Agency has compiled a report ‘The right to be forgotten – between expectations and practice’ which it published on 20 November….
Read More… from Technical Aspects of ‘Right to be Forgotten’: ENISA Report
The Information Commissioner’s Office has published a new code of practice on managing data protection risks in relation to anonymisation…
The EDPS has adopted an opinion which expresses his concern that responsibility for data protection and privacy in the Cloud should not be ‘up in the air’…
At the SCL Forum in September, Graham Smith spoke about the regulation of the Internet and what he saw as the best way forward. This article is an edited version of the views expressed in that talk. These are his personal views, not attributable to his law firm or to any client. A series of articles arising from the Forum will be published in the New Year – this one is very much for now as Leveson looms and decisions on the Communications Bill and social media prosecutions are considered….
Roger Bickerstaff has taken over as the SCL Chair after almost six years as a Trustee of SCL. SCL has new trustees too….
The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a monetary penalty for data inaccuracy, the first such penalty to relate to faults in data handling beyond the confines of simple data loss…
The EU Commission’s proposals to update data protection laws are too prescriptive, according to a new Report by the Justice Select Committee….
Read More… from Data Protection Reform: House of Commons Justice Committee’s View
Christelle Coslin and Pauline Blondet cover some recent developments concerning the jurisdiction of the courts over torts allegedly committed on the Internet…
Laurence Eastham brings together a few recent rulings of relevance to IT lawyers, covering topics as diverse as domain names, advertising standards and criminal procedure….