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Prosecute Richard O’Dwyer

June 25, 2012

For those few who do not know, Richard O’Dwyer is a 24 year old British student at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. He is facing extradition to the USA and up to ten years in prison, for creating a website – TVShack.net – which linked to places to watch TV and movies online. O’Dwyer is not a US citizen, he’s lived in the UK all his life, his site was not hosted there, and most of his users were not from the US. Why are we refusing to prosecute him in England and Wales?…

Reveal Day: Domain Names

June 13, 2012

ICANN has published its list of applicants for the new gTLDs and the suffixes they have claimed. Link to the list and read comments on what has been revealed….

ICO and Google Street View: Updated

June 12, 2012

The Information Commissioner’s Office has written to Google asking questions about Street View and its data collection. Google has responded. The ICO is clearly unhappy with Google’s behaviour during the initial investigation period in light of the fuller picture that has now emerged and Google is surprised that the ICO wants to re-open the investigation….

E-disclosure: TAR is Not a Plaything

May 30, 2012

Mike Taylor gives his assessment of technology assisted review…

Data Protection Breaches: Today and Tomorrow

May 29, 2012

In an imperfect world, there will be data protection breaches. Peter Wainman outlines the law on breach notification with his worried clients in mind….

Due Diligence in a Cloud Environment

May 28, 2012

Tania Williams highlights some of the key areas that customers should consider as part of their cloud computing due diligence exercise…

Data Subject Access Requests: The Extent of the Obligation

May 28, 2012

Charles Wynn-Evans and Renzo Marchini report on a recent county court decision on UK data subject access requests. It suggests that an employer’s (or other data controller’s) search for personal data need only be proportionate and that a SAR cannot properly be made for the purposes of actual or contemplated litigation rather than the right to be informed of the processing of personal data….