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Cookie Confusion and Clarifications

May 10, 2011

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has now issued its proposals to implement the amendments to the EU Telecoms Framework, including controversial new rules on the use of cookies. These proposals have been followed by new guidance from the Information Commissioner and a further open letter from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Richard Cumbley and Peter Church explain how the new rules suggest a flexible approach to consent (but not yet through the use of browser settings)….

Digital Evidence: Beware of Assuming Too Much

April 6, 2011

Stephen Mason highlights some of the lessons lawyers should learn from Operation Ore…

Consumerisation – Nothing is New

March 29, 2011

Simon Kosminsky reflects on the fact that the ‘new wave’ of consumerisation is not really all that new, it has just taken on a new form. But he explains that it nevertheless presents a challenge that has to be met….

AdWords: Opinion in Interflora v Marks & Spencer Published

March 24, 2011

The Opinion of Advocate General Jääskinen in Interflora v Marks & Spencer has now been published. He takes the view that Marks & Spencer has infringed the Interflora trade mark by purchasing the disputed keyword….

New York Court Rejects Google Book Deal

March 23, 2011

The judgment of Judge Denny Chin in the New York Federal Court has cast doubts on the implementation of the complex deal which was designed to allow Google to make a vast library of books available on the web…

Deep Thought

March 22, 2011

Our increasing exposure as IT lawyers and indeed as human beings to the exponential advance of technology…

Data Protection and Privacy: Hitting a Real World Wall

March 10, 2011

With doubts about implementation of the EU’s ‘cookie consent’ requirements and the suggestion that cloud cuckoo land has at last been found (apparently it is in Denmark), it is time to ask if there is a disconnect between commercial reality and privacy requirements. And whose fault is it?…

SCL Annual Lecture 2011: The Advent of Meaning-based Computing

March 9, 2011

Laurence Eastham reports on the lecture from Dr Mike Lynch OBE at the IET on 8 March on the advent of meaning-based computing…

Plane Squatting

February 22, 2011

Declan Cushley and Giles Parsons summarise a recent Nominet ruling on the domain name emirates.co.uk and emphasise the lessons that emerge….

Editorial

February 18, 2011

SCL Forum For the third year in a row, the Feb/March issue of the magazine is dominated by contributions reflecting the proceedings at the SCL Annual Policy Forum. The Forum is always a special event that provokes thought and encourages its participants to edge out of their comfort zone. This year’s was no different in…