On 6 November 2013, Bristows LLP hosted the latest session organised by the SCL Media Group which proved extremely popular. The session covered various aspects of online advertising and was chaired by Paul Jordan, head of the advertising team at Bristows. Sacha Wilson, an associate at Bristows, reports on the session….
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has issued guidance to law firms on the use of cloud computing…
Dominic Crossley gives his view of the recent judgment of the Tribunal de Grande Instance on a claim brought by Max Mosley against Google, relating to certain images available on a Google Images search…
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Reviewing the predictions published on the SCL web site over the last few years suggests that nearly all of the next lot of predictions will be wrong. But don’t let that stop you from trying to get it right….
SCL’s response to the ICO’s call for views on its Code of Practice for conducting Privacy Impact Assessments has now been published…
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The European Data Protection Supervisor has published comments on the proposal for a Council Directive amending the Directive 2011/16/EU on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation. He expresses clear concern about the data protection implications….
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ENISA, the European Union’s ‘cyber security’ Agency, has published a report recommending that all authorities should better promote cryptographic measure to safeguard personal data….
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In the space of little more than eight weeks, the Information Rights Tribunal has recently quashed two ‘Civil Monetary Penalties’ totalling £550,000. Paul Motion and Laura Irvine consider the decisions and argue that such Monetary Penalties are properly categorised as criminal, with significant consequences for both the Information Commissioner and a data controller under investigation for a data protection breach. See also the authors’ article ‘Cake or Death?’…
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Alan McKenna looks at the wider potential legal impact of proliferating drone use…
Dr Chris Pounder speculates on the likely fate of the EU plans for data protection reform…
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