Questions arising from the Augustl/September 2015 issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL:OC34 – CPD: 1 hour 30 minutes…
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Cases Round-up
Data Retention: 35-year Retention Policy Upheld In a judicial review action, R (C) v Northumberland County Council & Anor [2015] EWHC (Admin) 2134, the Administrative Court (Simon J) has ruled that the data retention policy of Northumberland County Council is lawful. The claimant (C) felt that he and his family had been the subject of…
Technology Law Futures Conference – Evening Keynote Report
Flora Blackett-Ord reports on the talk from Dylan Evans on ‘The Great AI Swindle’ which was the evening keynote at the SCL Technology Law Futures Conference. This article previously appeared as a news item on the site….
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Editorial
This issue includes a number of articles that arise from or are inspired by the SCL Technology Law Futures Conference, which was hosted and sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills in June. I hope that the next issue of the magazine will have further material arising from that Conference. I am grateful to those involved and…
CPD Online: Data Protection and Online Journalism
Questions arising from the podcast of the meeting on 8 July 2015. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL:OC33 – CPD: 1 hour 30 minutes…
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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….
Subject-access Requests: Privilege, Proportionality and Propriety
A High Court judgment has rejected a subject-access request served on solicitors…
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Consultation on Online Copyright Infringement Penalties
The IPO is running a consultation on proposals to increase sentences for online copyright infringement…
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Robots in the UK
In another in our series of articles inspired by the recent SCL Technology Law Futures Conference, Rob Buckingham looks at the reality of developments in the UK concerning robotics and autonomous systems, in the context of the coming explosion in the applications of AI…