Consent to Marketing E-mails
Cynthia O’Donoghue and Katalina Bateman report on the first tribunal case overturning an ICO fine for sending marketing emails without opt-in consent. It is a case based on the consent rules pre-GDPR…
Privacy & Data Protection
SCL Conference 18 – Flash Event Flashes Past
Laurence Eastham reflects on the SCL Annual Conference 2018, which had keynotes, panels, a conversation and flash talks…
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Hashing out the Implications of Smart Contracting under English Law
Rachel Lidgate and Charlie Morgan offer an in-depth look at smart contracts and the teasing challenges which they display…
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Poetry Corner – Negotiating Cloud Deals Advice
If Wordsworth was alive, he would no doubt have left Westminster Bridge and attended the SCL Conference. But, in his unavoidable absence, his muse descended on Holly Pearsall and she gave her flash talk at the Conference in verse. Here is her much discussed, and widely praised, poem in full. It needs to be read aloud to get full value….
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Event Report: Smarter Documents 2 – the contract automation journey continues
Gerald Brent reports on a meeting of the SCL KM Group on 11 September 2018…
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AI Challenges and the Law: Being smart enough to boss around smart devices and AI
Peter Leonard asks ‘who’s in charge here?’ and whether we are equipped to stay in charge…
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Profiling and Automated Decision-making under the GDPR
Will Robertson and Elliott Prentiss look at two areas that throw up particular issues under the GDPR…
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SIMs: Suitable Information Mollifies Subscribers?
Neil Brown draws lessons from a recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning pre-loaded SIM cards…
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Surveillance and Bulk Data Retention Judgment from the European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights has given judgment in a case brought to challenge elements of surveillance applying under the RIPA 2000. Although technically finding against the UK, it does not appear to materially affect the current surveillance regime…
Government Guidance on Data Protection in a ‘No-deal’ Scenario
The Government has issued guidance on ‘the actions UK organisations should take to enable the continued flow of personal data between the UK and the EU in the unlikely event that the UK leaves the EU in March 2019 with no agreement in place.’…
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