Christelle Coslin and Christine Gateau explain the significance of important 2012 judgments in the French Supreme Court, which ruled that there is no obligation on hosting providers in France to ensure that notified content is not later re-posted online by its users…
Read More… from No ‘Stay Down’ Obligation for Hosting Providers in France
It has been the best of times; it has been the worst of times. On the one hand, we have had moves towards open data that saw the G8 leaders sign up to the Open Data Charter, some very positive Government responses to the Shakespeare Review of Public Sector Information and impressive commitments to co-operative…
Advocate General Jääskinen considers that search engine service providers are not responsible, on the basis of the Data Protection Directive, for personal data appearing on web pages they process….
Read More… from Advocate General: Search Engines Not Responsible for Data on Web
An informal combination of data protection authorities have approached Google, expressing concern about the data protection implications of Google Glass…
Google faces further action from the ICO over wi-fi data collection…
Nominet has announced a programme for ‘evolving the .uk domain name space’…
The CNIL has ordered Google to comply with the French Data Protection Act, within three months. Other DPAs are proceeding with the concerted action agreed by the Article 29 Working Party…
Bridget Treacy and Naomi McBride bring us up to date with the latest developments on the EU DP Regulation…
Phil Lee considers the impact that Google Glass and other ‘smart glasses’ may have on privacy issues and calls for new thinking…
Read More… from A Brave New World Demands Brave New Thinking
Even someone with a long-standing interest in 3D printing has to be surprised by its sudden ascent to the mainstream. Simon Bradshaw puts surprise to one side, reviews the latest legal reaction and trends which affect or will come to affect 3D printing and essays some predictions….