It seems hard to believe, but Tuesday 12th April 2011 was the first anniversary of the passing of the Digital Economy Act 2010.
Although the previous Government had hoped that the copyright enforcement provisions of the Act would be in operation by the start of this year, there is still no sign of the Initial Obligations [...]
Cambridge University gave a report at Networkshop on their work with Google to make outsourcing of staff and student calendars compliant with UK data protection law. This was achieved through a combination of individual contract terms, obtaining assurances about Google’s security processes, and design of the local Cambridge infrastructure.
Cambridge’s contract includes a definition of personal [...]
The Home Office has published a draft Statutory Instrument that will add a new section 1A to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 to establish monetary penalties for “unintentional interception” without lawful authority. This follows a brief consultation last autumn. Fortunately the operator of a network does have lawful authority to intercept for purposes [...]
An interesting series of papers on legal issues of cloud computing are being published by Queen Mary, University of London. The following are my summaries – any errors in them are my fault, not that of the authors.
I was particularly struck by Professor Chris Reed’s paper on “Information Ownership in the Cloud”, which points out [...]