Over the past few months I’ve been working with UCISA’s Networking Group to develop a set of standard templates that Janet customer organisations can use, if they wish, to respond to copyright infringement reports. This supplements Janet’s existing guidance on how to handle copyright complaints in accordance with the Janet AUP. We hope that this [...]
The Information Commissioner’s updated guidance on cookies contains helpful examples and a useful clarifications on cookies not directly linked to a user service (I’m reassured that the Commissioner seems to be heading for the same categories as I came up with).
Since the Commissioner’s own website is relatively simple, it doesn’t provide many illustrations of how [...]
Statewatch have published what appears to be a leaked draft of Commission ideas for revised data protection legislation. All the legal commentary I’ve seen suggests that in its current form it’s very unlikely to become law, but as no one is suggesting that it isn’t a genuine Commission document I thought it was worth a [...]
The Ministry of Justice has published a summary of the responses to its consultation on a revised Defamation Bill.
It’s clear that many others share our concern about the position of Internet hosts, who currently have a strong incentive to remove third-party material whenever they receive any complaint, whether or not it is well-founded. The “majority [...]