Are you a service provider dealing with personal data? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Especially (but not only) if you’re an IaaS/PaaS cloud provider. Kuan Hon explains….
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Limiting online access to some web sites is terribly complicated, but can we please start by making it a little simpler…
Rosemary Jay identifies areas of complexity and various data protection conundrums arising from UK opt-outs…
Fad, fashion or durable? Sarah Pearce has fashioned an article that looks at the trend towards wearables…
Ofcom has published options aimed at making it easier for consumers to change their mobile phone provider and is seeking views on its proposals…
The Court of Justice of the European Union has made an important ruling in a case concerning patents in the telecoms sector that might have some implications in technology patent negotiations generally…
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Amandeep Singh, Milan Joshi and Steve Clough explain tokenisation and how it fits into the payment ecosystem…
Nominet has announced changes to its policy on publishing details of ownership of domain names…
‘It’s amazing how they can transmit the internet through the clouds, isn’t it? What jurisdiction are they even in?’ I checked that my friend wasn’t in fact referring to Google’s Loon project or Facebook’s solar-powered drones (where these are pertinent questions[[http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/can-we-trust-google-with-the-stratosphere/278797/]]) and then offered to lend him this book: Renzo Marchini’s ‘Cloud Computing: A Practical…
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The Administrative Court has ruled that a local authority’s policy of retaining child protection records for 35 years or more is lawful…
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