The European Data Protection Supervisor has published comments on the proposal for a Council Directive amending the Directive 2011/16/EU on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation. He expresses clear concern about the data protection implications….
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ENISA, the European Union’s ‘cyber security’ Agency, has published a report recommending that all authorities should better promote cryptographic measure to safeguard personal data….
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In the space of little more than eight weeks, the Information Rights Tribunal has recently quashed two ‘Civil Monetary Penalties’ totalling £550,000. Paul Motion and Laura Irvine consider the decisions and argue that such Monetary Penalties are properly categorised as criminal, with significant consequences for both the Information Commissioner and a data controller under investigation for a data protection breach. See also the authors’ article ‘Cake or Death?’…
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Alan McKenna looks at the wider potential legal impact of proliferating drone use…
Dr Chris Pounder speculates on the likely fate of the EU plans for data protection reform…
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I write this in the aftermath, more a warm glow really, of another highly successful SCL Conference. I feel the warm glow (even though I wasn’t actually there) via the feedback that comes my way and because David Chaplin’s buzzy account of the event (see the SCL web site) captured the buzz so well. The…
The English High Court recently offered a reminder that web site references to the UK include Scotland, when accepting that the Scottish courts had sole jurisdiction in a claim by an English company against consumers in Scotland…
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Questions arising from the October/November 2013 issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL:OC10 – CPD: 1 hour 30 minutes…
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Laurence Eastham reviews the latest publication from Dr Monica Horten…
Questions arising from the podcast of the SCL Conference 2013. These questions arise from Ben Jaffey’s keynote presentation and the presentations on BYOD from Robert Jones and Nigel Miller. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL:OC9 – CPD: 1 hour 30 minutes…
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