Safe Harbors On 27 July the EU accepted, by a Commission decision, that organisations in the US which adopt arrangements for the protection of personal data which conform to a set of agreed standards will be accepted as providing adequate protection for the purposes of personal data transfer from the EU. The concept (and spelling)…
Dr Oliver Zander of Beiten Burkhardt Mittl & Wegener provides a brief guide to recent developments in Germany….
Peter Carey, author of Data Protection UK, looks at the impact of data protection legislation on one crucial aspect of e-commerce….
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Richard Harrison looks at the legal liabilities which might arise under the new regime for cryptography in electronic communications….
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Laurence C. Kennedy, Advocate, reports on the Conference held in Edinburgh on 27 June 2000, organised by the SCL Scottish Group in partnership with SCRIPT and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh….
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Robert Waixel reports on the 13th Annual Privacy Laws & Business Conference held in early July….
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Jeremy Barker reports on the South Western Group meeting which took place on 13 July….
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Alex Allan, the Government e-Envoy, knows that e-commerce has fast become a valuable tool for all sectors – business, government, voluntary, and media – and is indispensable in many areas
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Positive FeedbackPositive feedback to share: in the last issue I reflected on the realbenefits of document management and litigation support systems. I have nowreceived some helpful comments from Chris Dale of Oxford Law and Computing. Heagrees with me that we should be very suspicious of any system that purports todeliver ‘qualitative analysis’. He makes the…
Rico Calleja analyses the new Act and points out some of its defects and dangers….
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