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International Chamber of Commerce UK cookie guide

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 30 2012

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has issued guidance to help website operators and users understand and apply the changes to the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 relating to cookies that will come into force in the United Kingdom on 25 May 2012

Working party opinion on the European Commission’s data protection reform proposals

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • April 30 2012

The Working Party on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data (the Working Party) has adopted an opinion on the European Commission’s proposals for reform of current data protection law

Serious e-privacy breaches: ICO guidance on monetary penalties

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 30 2012

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has laid before the UK Parliament a draft of its new guidance on monetary penalties

“UK’s safest broadband”: TalkTalk in breach of CAP and BCAP Code

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 29 2012

TalkTalk’s adverts claiming to offer the “UK’s safest broadband” have been found to be in breach of the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) Code

EU privacy: proposal for a new regime

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • February 29 2012

On 25 January 2012, the European Commission published the long-awaited and much-anticipated draft legislation that comprehensively reforms EU data protection law

Privacy and the cloud: an EU perspective

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • February 29 2012

By using cloud computing, companies cut costs by outsourcing data storage tasks, which means they no longer have to maintain expensive servers

Social networking sites could do more to protect minors’ privacy

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • November 29 2011

On 30 September 2011, the European Commission published a Report on an Assessment of the Implementation of the Safer Social Networking Principles for the EU

Information Commissioner calls for compulsory data protection audits

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 29 2011

The Information Commissioner has called for an extension of powers to order the compulsory data protection auditing in sectors that are causing concern over their handling of personal information

How the cookie crumbles: a clash of cultures on cookie regulation

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • November 3 2011

The Article 29 Working Party has met with Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe and European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA) representatives to tell them in no uncertain terms that their otherwise well-received Best Practice Recommendation (BPR) and Framework on Online Behavioural Advertising (OBA) does not comply with the revised e-Privacy Directive provisions on cookies

Sui generis database rights and what constitutes a substantial part

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 3 2011

In Beechwood House Publishing v Guardian Products Ltd 2011 EWPCC 22, the Claimant’s database right was found to have been infringed when the Defendants extracted 6,000 records from the Claimant’s database of 43,000 records