Forgetting and Futility
The latest ICO enforcement notice, arising under the ‘right to be forgotten’, seems like a futile gesture….
Telecoms & the Internet
Fresh Starts and Freshening Skills
Roger Bickerstaff offers a welcome and has some suggestions for self-improvement…
What are the Security Risks for Law Firms Using Windows 10?
Robert Rutherford takes a positive view of the new Microsoft operating system…
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Cloud, Patents and Semantics
Why do patent professionals spend so much time trying to find the right words to describe an invention? Nick Reeve shows how the story of cloud computing technology, and the words used to describe it, provide an explanation….
The HTML5 Battery API
Neil Brown, Rebecca Collard and Micheál Ó Floinn comment on the news that functionality within the HTML5 standard may allow surreptitious tracking of users….
Open Season on Service Providers? The General Data Protection Regulation Cometh…
Are you a service provider dealing with personal data? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Especially (but not only) if you’re an IaaS/PaaS cloud provider. Kuan Hon explains….
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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…
Wearable Tech – A Passing Fashion?
Fad, fashion or durable? Sarah Pearce has fashioned an article that looks at the trend towards wearables…
Domain Names: Changes to .UK WHOIS Policy
Nominet has announced changes to its policy on publishing details of ownership of domain names…
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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