Annie Clarke reports on the SCL Big Data Masterclass, Big Data & Digital: competition, consumer protection and other challenges, which took place on 17 September 2014….
German Government Proposes IT Security Act
Joachim Scherer, Caroline Heinickel and Holger Lutz bring us up to date with a development in Germany that may colour EU-wide legislation…
Government Database Records and Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a French crime database system was in breach of Convention for storing information on individuals against whom proceedings have been dropped…
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Article 29 Working Party: Letters to OECD and IOSCO on Financial Matters
The Article 29 Working Party has written a series of letters raising data protection concerns relating to tax, financial consumer protection and securities…
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E-disclosure: Knowing Value and Knowing Costs
Hitesh Chowdhry and Tom Alexander offer some guidance for lawyers on how to budget for e-disclosure costs and what to consider when selecting an e-disclosure provider….
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Multi-vendor Outsourcing in Practice
Multi-vendor outsourcings have become an established part of the central government contract landscape over the last few years. Roger Bickerstaff has worked on a variety of multi-vendor projects, advising both public sector customers and customers and private sector bidders. In this article, he uses his practical experience to identify some of the key issues that are emerging in the conduct of these procurement processes….
Something for the Weekend: Tim Berners-Lee
SCL President Richard Susskind is to interview Tim Berners-Lee in a special event on Saturday 27 September…
iOS 8: Too Much Privacy?
I fear that Apple’s latest privacy policy may cause many problems…
Article 29 Working Party on Google Spain: Latest
The long-awaited guidance from the Article 29 Working Party on how the Google Spain judgment might best be implemented is still awaited. The most recent meeting has agreed only some mechanisms for producing such guidance….
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SCL Event Report: Foundations of IT Law Programme – Module 6: Cloud Computing
James Henderson reports on the sixth module in SCL’s Foundation of IT Law, which took place on 10 September 2014…
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