Fresh Starts and Freshening Skills
Roger Bickerstaff offers a welcome and has some suggestions for self-improvement…
Publishing & social media
Employment: Social Media and Dismissal
Paul Mander explains how a Facebook brag left a British Waterways employee in the drink…
Cases Round-up
Data Retention: 35-year Retention Policy Upheld In a judicial review action, R (C) v Northumberland County Council & Anor [2015] EWHC (Admin) 2134, the Administrative Court (Simon J) has ruled that the data retention policy of Northumberland County Council is lawful. The claimant (C) felt that he and his family had been the subject of…
Technology Law Futures Conference – Evening Keynote Report
Flora Blackett-Ord reports on the talk from Dylan Evans on ‘The Great AI Swindle’ which was the evening keynote at the SCL Technology Law Futures Conference. This article previously appeared as a news item on the site….
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Editorial
This issue includes a number of articles that arise from or are inspired by the SCL Technology Law Futures Conference, which was hosted and sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills in June. I hope that the next issue of the magazine will have further material arising from that Conference. I am grateful to those involved and…
Age and Online Access
Limiting online access to some web sites is terribly complicated, but can we please start by making it a little simpler…
SCL Event Report: Data Privacy and Online Journalism
Emma Cross reports from the SCL seminar hosted by Olswang LLP which asked ‘Has the DPA been stretched too far?’…
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What’s the Big Deal? Big Data in the Financial Services Sector
Jonny Emmanuel considers the big questions surrounding Big Data…
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SCL Event Report: Beginners’ Guide to the Digital Marketplace
David Egan reports on the first session hosted by the SCL Junior Lawyer’s Group, an event held at Bird & Bird on 22 June 2015….
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Is Luddism the Answer to ‘Keeping Humans at the Heart’?
This article draws on Neil Brown’s contribution to the SCL’s Technology Law Futures Conference, in which he mused on the parallel between today’s concerns about the impact of technologies and those of the Luddites in the 19th century, and floated the idea of a ‘human impact assessment’….
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