The Internet Advertising Bureau has launched a set of Good Practice Principles – self-regulatory guidelines to set good practice for companies that collect and use data for online behavioural advertising purposes….
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The EPO has asked for views on the referral of computer patent cases – and SCL is using its new web site to feed through views. Meanwhile the Patent Court has emphasised the topicality of the issues, with a new judgment rejecting two appeals, from AT&T and CVON….
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The Government response to the European Commission’s Green Paper has now been published….
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Questions arising from the February/March 2009 issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Course Code HW/SFCL10 – 1 hour…
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The ICO has issued a draft code of practice on the content and nature of privacy notices. Marly Didizian and Peter Church describe and comment on the draft code’s plus, and its shortcomings, and offer their own suggestions for drafting….
Pride As I well recall from the birth of my first child and as any new father knows, the amount of pride one feels in a new issue does not always relate to the level of one’s contribution. I am particularly proud of this issue of the magazine and that pride is in no way…
The latest move by Facebook chimes with my dilemma over SCL profiles. Who has legal control over the data?…
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The Legal Software Suppliers Association has revised its guidelines to include new rules governing the safety, integrity and transfer of key customer data…
The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has taken the unusual step of issuing a third opinion on the e-Privacy Directive because ‘it wishes to underline some essential concerns related to the issues raised after the first reading at the Parliament and at the Council’. Most of the Working Party’s concerns relate to the data breach notification proposals in the Directive….
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