In his excellent article in this issue, Andrew Tibber asks the question ‘The Defamation Bill: A Fair Balance?‘ in his title for the piece. He ends, I think with clause 5 (the web site operators’ defence) in mind, thus: ‘genuine claimants, for whom an initial cease and desist letter to a web site host or…
The highly controversial plans for the Bill to ‘Make provision for ensuring or otherwise facilitating the availability of communications data and as to its obtaining by public authorities; and for connected purposes’ has now been published….
A recent case has illustrated once again the dangers of seeking to impose unfair terms when allocating liability in contracts, especially where consumers are involved. Helen Hart explains how this case shows that aiming to give your business flexibility might mean that you do not have a contract at all….
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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….
The assembled wisdom of the European data protection authorities has produced an authoritative Opinion on the ‘cookie consent exemption’…
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In this article, which originally appeared as a white paper written for and on behalf of smartlegal.it, Bill Kirby expands on his view that law firms need to look hard at the advantage that they may gain by the use of hosted IT services – and that they need to look at that option now…
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Another NHS Trust has been hit with a monetary penalty – and this time it is an eye-watering £325,000 penalty…
Marion Oswald reviews key provisions in the ICO’s draft code of practice on anonymisation…
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The Information Commissioner’s Office has begun a public consultation on a new anonymisation code of practice….
In an imperfect world, there will be data protection breaches. Peter Wainman outlines the law on breach notification with his worried clients in mind….
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