The SCL Annual Conference 2017: A Sketch
David Chaplin, the SCL’s Development Editor, offers some brief observations on last week’s outstanding Annual Conference…
Publishing & social media
Time to Speak up for Article 15
Graham Smith is one of the speakers at the SCL Conference in the session covering new trends in data interception, use and retention. While this piece from Graham does not reflect his input in that focused session, it is an important contribution to the much-needed debate on Internet freedoms….
Book Review: Collisions in the Digital Paradigm
Laurence Eastham reviews a new book from David J Harvey, Collisions in the Digital Paradigm: Law and Rule Making in the Internet Age (Hart Publishing; 401 pp: ISBN 978-1-50990-652-9)…
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Book Review: Queer Privacy
Neil Brown reviews Sarah Jamie Lewis’s edited book ‘Queer Privacy’, and reflects on what lawyers and privacy advisors can do differently in light of its message….
Age Verification and Online Pornography under the DEA 2017: whose fine is it anyway?
Neil Brown takes a detailed look at the scope of the Digital Economy Act 2017’s age verification obligations, and the various actors upon which they fall….
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Facebook Fined by EU Commission
The EU Commission has fined Facebook €110 million for providing misleading information about its WhatsApp takeover…
Cloud Transformation: How to Steer Clear of the Storms
Kit Burden applies his unrivalled expertise and experience to an analysis of developments in cloud computing contracts, identifying the key emerging challenges…
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Digital Economy Act 2017 Published
The final version of the Digital Economy Act 2017 has been published online. Some significant provisions come into force on 25 June….
There’s something very familiar about all this…
Ben Hughes explores the opportunities presented by the deployment of current and impending disruptive technologies in the retail and consumer sector….
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Patent Licensing: 5G and the Internet of Things
With 5G on the horizon, Matthew Hunt looks at some of the patent licensing implications in the context of the impending EU Commission ‘Communication on Standard Essential Patents for a European digitalised economy’…
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