A High Court judgment suggests that vicarious liability arises under data protection legislation and applies even where a rogue employee’s breach is aimed at revenging himself on a data protection compliant employer…
Gideon Shirazi weighs in with his predictions for 2018…
Simon Deane-Johns was first to contribute, appropriate enough as he is Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board for SCL, and he leads out our predictions blog posts for this year…
David Chaplin, SCL Development Editor, reports on the South West Group’s really useful GDPR event held earlier this week….
A seven-week consultation on proposed changes to the UK’s communications data retention and acquisition regime has opened….
Read More… from Home Office Consultation on Communications Data and Data Retention
The Irish High Court has confronted the question of whether a court should order a person to make discovery of documents that can be obtained by making a data subject protection request…
The Court of Justice of the European Union has given its view on a case involving the copying of television programmes in the cloud…
Matthew Holman and Lewis Borg analyse some of the most pressing issues on consent under the GDPR and challenge the ICO to clarify some of its guidance…
Read More… from Grasping the Nettle: Tackling the Stinging Issues of Consent
Following on from a widely welcomed presentation at SCL’s Sextech, Porn and the Law event in October, Pandora Blake offers a fuller analysis of the dangers and difficulties that come with the introduction of age verification in accordance with the Digital Economy Act 2017…
Mark O’Conor, the SCL Chair, explains why he values the input from SCL Groups and encourages SCL members to be involved with them…