Lorna Cropper explains why she believes that users of wearable technology will receive greater protection under the GDPR, in particular via data protection by design and by default and because of codes of conduct and certification….
Stephen Mathias gives some insight into the recent regulation of net neutrality in India, which outlaws tariffs that discriminate on the basis of content. It sheds greater light on the recent Facebook face-off with the Indian authorities over ‘Free Basics’…
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has launched a consultation on ‘Child Safety Online: Age Verification for Pornography’…
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Two recent cases have cast light on the way a court might view FRAND terms. Tom Foster sets the scene and examines the guidance that has emerged….
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Stewart James gives an account of this important new pending directive…
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In his first communication with SCL members as SCL Chair, Mark O’Conor gives a sense of where SCL has got to and where it can go as a Society over the next few years….
Chris Bridges focuses on the impact of the GDPR on one particular data-dependent industry….
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In the latest in our series of articles focusing on aspects of the GDPR, Tim Hickman and Dr. Detlev Gabel review the various rights granted under the GDPR, consider how they differ from the current set of rights set out in the Directive and go on to consider the impact that each such right is likely to have on organisations that act as data controllers….
Darren Jones gives readers a light introduction to some of the themes he will be covering in greater depth in later articles on DSM…
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Although adopted in December, the latest opinions of the Article 29 Working Party have only now been published. The first, Opinion 175/16/EN WP 234, has the full title ‘Guidelines for Member States on the criteria to ensure compliance with data protection requirements in the context of the automatic exchange of personal data for tax purposes’…