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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The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament has voted through an amended version of the data protection reform package. The associated excitement may be misplaced, or at least a little overstated. But SCL members may find the unofficial consolidated version of the regulation of real interest….
A ruling by the First-tier Tribunal on an appeal against a monetary penalty notice calls into question the ICO’s assessment of when it is appropriate to issue a monetary penalty notice…
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David Chaplin reports on the SCL Annual Conference 2013, ‘All the IT Law you need for 2014’…
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Practising IT Law is not for the faint-hearted. At any moment you could be asked to advise on any number of issues, from the liabilities and risks in an IT supply contract, through data protection of employee records to complex e-commerce issues. All the advice you give must be thoroughly grounded in the relevant law…
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The Article 29 Working Party have agreed and published new guidance on consent to cookies. Catch up on its other latest activities too….
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An article in the FT has caused a bit of a stir and I wonder what SCL members think…