Is the ICO Quietly Implementing the GDPR?
Laurence Eastham applauds the new ICO Code of Practice and wonders if the ICO is flying under the Brexit radar….
Telecoms & the Internet
Review Compilation
Laurence Eastham offers reviews of publications that may be of interest to SCL members…
Protecting Privacy Online: GDPR and e-Privacy Directive Revisited
Agnieszka Jablonowska considers the role of data in the digital economy, focusing on the input from the BEUC, the EDPS and the Article 29 Working Party on the review of the e-Privacy Directive…
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GDPR Conundrums: Processing Special Categories of Data
Lokke Moerel analyses the GDP’s provisions dealing with special categories of data and the crucial ambiguity surrounding when supervisory authorities need to be consulted…
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SCL Event Report: Foundations of IT Law – Risk, Cyber and Computer Misuse
Quentin Tannock reports on the latest event in the Foundations of IT Law series (Module 7 – Cycle 2), held on 14 September 2016 and hosted by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (Europe) LLP….
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Net Neutrality Guidelines
BEREC has published guidelines on net neutrality…
Internet Giants and Other Fairy Tales
When I find myself on the verge of defending Google, Facebook and Twitter, I take a deep breath, a strong drink and decide it’s best to sleep on it. That’s what I did yesterday. But I am afraid that, even after a day of sunshine, I still feel the need to come to their defence….
Internet ‘Giants’ and Extremism on the Web
The Home Affairs Committee has published a new report which says that social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are ‘consciously failing’ to combat the use of their sites to promote terrorism and killings and that these networks have become ‘the vehicle of choice in spreading propaganda and the recruiting platforms for terrorism’….
Algorithmic Decision-Making and the Problem of Opacity
John Danaher introduces our focus on algorithms in legal and governmental decision-making and explains some of the basic problems. You can find further linked articles in the side-panel….
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Algorithmic Governmentality: Techo-optimism and the Move towards the Dark Side
If algorithmic government does ever achieve its full potential, John Morison offers an intimidating insight into the world we might see…
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