Privacy & Data Protection Archives - Page 167 of 210

Article 29 Working Party: ‘Essential Concerns’ about the e-Privacy Directive

February 24, 2009

The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has taken the unusual step of issuing a third opinion on the e-Privacy Directive because ‘it wishes to underline some essential concerns related to the issues raised after the first reading at the Parliament and at the Council’. Most of the Working Party’s concerns relate to the data breach notification proposals in the Directive….

Data Protection: Coroners and Justice Bill Proposals

February 23, 2009

The ICO has published further commentary on the proposals for assessment notices, information sharing and other amendments to data protection legislation contained in the data protection aspects of the Coroners and Justice Bill…

Trustees’ Terabytes

February 19, 2009

We have finally decided to start a Trustees’ blog, about SCL, about being Trustees, about being tech lawyers, about technology in our practices, about what’s happening behind (and in front of) the scenes at SCL, and whatever feels important to us from time to time….

Shoring-up Escrow: Precautions against Software Supplier Insolvency

February 16, 2009

Renzo Marchini sounds a timely warning about the need to put in place one, admittedly shaky, piece of protection against supplier insolvency…

Learning to Trust Cloud Computing

February 16, 2009

Bridget Treacy analyses how over-regulation and concern over data privacy may keep the cloud from rising high…

Digital Britain Interim Report

January 30, 2009

This report has been widely publicised. There is very little in the interim report that does not have importance for IT lawyers but we highlight the elements of most obvious importance….

Legislating for Web 2.0: Leading the Thinking

January 27, 2009

The SCL Web site has 11 brand new articles arising from the SCL Forum entitled ‘Legislating for Web 2.0 – Preparing for the Communications Act?’. The articles come from leading thinkers on a range of related topics and represent an important contribution to the debate on a range of legislative issues….