The Ministry of Justice is conducting a consultation on a proposal to extend the powers of the ICO to carry out compulsory assessments of NHS bodies….
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The latest MoJ consultation is just a waste of time…
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If you count software bots as robots then robots are already being used to deceive and exploit people who mistake them for humans. Miranda Mowbray enlightens you….
Question arising from the seminar held on 27 February 2013 where important developments in data protection were covered. HW/SFCL:OC3 CPD: 2 hours…
Julia Hörnle looks at a German case concerning the application of EU data protection law to foreign service providers and similar questions arising elsewhere in the EU, all of which raise issues about what amounts to the right kind of establishment…
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The House of Commons Justice Committee has published a report on the functions, powers and resources of the Information Commissioner…
It is facile to say that IT law is international in its scope. But do IT lawyers wear jurisdictional blinkers anyway?…
Lachlan Urquhart considers the various issues raised by drones…
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Rod J. Cowper, Ben Goodger and Ellen Hughes-Jones ask if there is new security for sub-licensees. The question arises following a High Court ruling that a sub-licence for the use of software survived the termination of the head licence under which it was granted. This article appears in the April edition of In-House Lawyer. It is a more detailed analysis than the article from the same authors, Sub-licence Survivor, which appeared on this site last month….
The ICO has prosecuted a medical receptionist under the Data Protection Act 1998, s 55…