The Future is Facebook?
Are emails and texts going to be supplanted by social media sites….
Publishing & social media
Appy Talk
This article from Dr. Daithí Mac Síthigh on the regulation of apps, with its special focus on Apple’s own approach, gives the flavour of his much praised presentation at SCL’s 6th Annual Policy Forum held in September 2011….
Disclosure of Username Data: Patel v Unite
The High Court has ordered a trade union to allow an independent expert access to their database and prepare a report for a claimant in an action involving allegedly defamatory postings on a forum….
Right to Be Forgotten vs Need to Be Remembered
Arnold Roosendaal asks if we are asking the right question about the so-called right to be forgotten: ‘Why are some organisations collecting so much information anyway?’ This article was written to summarise the issues raised in his talk at SCL’s 6th Annual Policy Forum held in September 2011….
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Processing Children’s Data
A new initiative that makes a lot of sense and a continuing dilemma that probably doesn’t…
Data Protection: Unlawful Processing and ICO Enforcement
In light of a recent High Court judgment, Dr Chris Pounder suggests that the ICO can enforce unlawful processing, including Article 8 breaches, contrary to its existing standard practice…
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Does the Digital Economy Act 2010 Have a Future?
This article by Francis Davey was written to accompany his talk at SCL’s 6th Annual Policy Forum held in September 2011. The article includes some updates but was written before the outcome of the appeal on the refusal of judicial review relating to the Act was known….
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Regulation of Video-on-demand Services: the ‘Sun Video‘ Appeal
David Lewis examines a recent landmark development in the regulation of video on demand services and predicts that it may be the first of many……
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Privacy Protection: Seed Control?
Rosalind English reports on a case which involved an innovative approach to protection of privacy, with the court venturing into an area often characterised as beyond court control…
Digital Ubiquity
The stratospheric increase in the use of social and mobile media has important implications for e-disclosure practitioners, as Greg Wildisen makes clear…