The NHSX App: what are the privacy concerns?
Nigel Miller and Ben Nolan review how the NHSX contact tracing App works and what privacy issues to look out for….
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Miscellaneous
European Parliament committee says use of consumer’s personal information can cross the line into manipulation
The European Parliament’s internal market and consumer committee has published a study on new aspects and challenges in consumer protection. Study says that use of consumer’s personal information can cross the line into manipulation and has consequences beyond online commerce….
Facial recognition technology: Supporting a sustainable lockdown exit strategy?
A team from DLA Piper look at how the use of facial recognition technology – and the regulation surrounding its use – might play out in the exit from COVID lockdowns, focusing in particular on examples in Ireland, Denmark and China….
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European Data Protection Board: cookie walls do not constitute valid consent
New guidance adopted by the EDPB which says cookie walls do not constitute valid consent, as the provision of the service relies on the data subject clicking the “Accept cookies” button….
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Remote hearings: The new normal?
Leah Grolman recounts her experience of attending remote hearings and wonders whether this method of working could become a standard way of working….
4 June seminar on project management for lawyers
I posted last week the questions on project management systems and tools that our expert panel will be discussing on Wednesday evening. Today, I have been discussing with panel members some of the key people questions we will be addressing: What elements of legal project management are – or should be – positioned as a core…
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BILETA Conference – Call for Papers
The 28th Annual BILETA Conference will be hosted by the University of Liverpool on 10 to 13 April. The conference theme, ‘Our Digital Futures: Technologies Without Boundaries’ aims to promote interdisciplinary discussion and investigation of the spheres of policymaking, legal, technological and social activity – creativity, climate change, energy, health and well-being. The theme also…
Editorial
BAILII There may be those who think that a blog post on the BAILII appeal for funds and a short contribution from me to the BAILII appeal article at p 5 are more than enough. But I don’t think I have said enough. On top of its usefulness to me personally, which I mention in…
Editorial
I am writing this in the positive afterglow of the latest successful SCL Conference. My relatively brief attendance was a lift for morale. But this focused event, and especially the focused and positive collection of attendees, does remind me that standards on these pages and on the web site need to be kept high to…
Editorial
This issue sees a selection of predictions; the full set, which I heartily recommend, have, yet again, been the Web site’s crowd pleaser in the last month or so. But I am pleased that, predictions aside, we have managed to cover some of the issues which I think are going to figure prominently in 2005…