SCL Meeting Report: Back to Basics: IP for IT Lawyers
James Smith reports on the SCL Seminar held at Speechly Bircham on 26 June 2013…
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Telecoms & the Internet
ICO Update on Google Privacy Policy
Read the latest Information Commissioner’s Office statement on the steps it is taking with regard to enforcement and some additional detail on the matters of concern…
No ‘Stay Down’ Obligation for Hosting Providers in France
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…
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Editorial
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: Search Engines Not Responsible for Data on Web
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….
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Google Glass and Data Protection Issues
An informal combination of data protection authorities have approached Google, expressing concern about the data protection implications of Google Glass…
Street View: ICO Issues Enforcement Notice
Google faces further action from the ICO over wi-fi data collection…
Nominet’s Plans for Change
Nominet has announced a programme for ‘evolving the .uk domain name space’…
Google Privacy : Latest Enforcement Action
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…
Irish Presidency Proposes Risk-Based Adjustments to Proposed EU Data Protection Regulation
Bridget Treacy and Naomi McBride bring us up to date with the latest developments on the EU DP Regulation…