Case Compilation
Laurence Eastham brings together a few recent rulings of relevance to IT lawyers, covering topics as diverse as domain names, advertising standards and criminal procedure….
Telecoms & the Internet
SCL Conference Report: IT Law Hot Topics 2012
Helen Hart reports on Tuesday’s SCL Annual Conference ‘IT Law Hot Topics 2012: The IT law you need for 2013’…
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SCL Media Group Seminar Report: Intermediary Liability
Frania Cooper reports on the meeting of the SCL Media Group on 10 October which focused on intermediary liability…
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SCL Policy Forum Report: Computer and Communications Law Reform
Jaani Riordan reports on the annual SCL Policy Forum which took place on 13 and 14 September at the offices of Herbert Smith, London. Podcasts of most of the presentations at the Forum are now available on the SCL web site….
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Google’s Privacy Policy Latest
The EU still does not like Google’s new privacy policy: ‘incomplete information and uncontrolled combination of data across services’. The CNIL has published its findings and the essence of the latest letter sent to Google….
Cloud Computing vs Traditional Outsourcing – Key Differences
Kuan Hon and Christopher Millard particularise the many faces of cloud computing and warn of the dangers of pretending that each matches old outsourcing profiles when determining how to regulate….
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Nominet Consultation on New Domain Names
Nominet is consulting on proposals affecting development of the .uk Internet space…
EDPS Comments on Online Illegal Content Procedure Proposals
The European Data Protection Supervisor has published his formal comments on DG MARKT’s public consultation on procedures for notifying and acting on illegal content hosted by online intermediaries…
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ASA Ruling on Misleading URL
The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that the use of a url in a sponsored link containing ‘nhs’ when there was no direct National Health Service connection was a breach of the CAP Code…
Legal Issues for App Developers
Kathryn Rogers considers the main legal concerns for the ever-growing army of app developers…