Month: November 2011

ECJ on Copyright Injunctions

Post author By Andrew Cormack
Post date 29 November 2011
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The European Court of Justice has set some limits for the sorts of measures that ISPs can be compelled to implement to discourage copyright breach by their networks. Back in 2004 the Belgian rightsholder representative SABAM sought a court order requiring an ISP, Scarlet, to install devices on its network that inspected the content of […]

Tags Copyright, eCommerce Directive, Filtering

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Processing personal data for third party interests

Post author By Andrew Cormack
Post date 28 November 2011
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An interesting reminder from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) is supposed to make processing and exchanging personal data easier as well as safer. The Directive contains a number of different reasons justifying processing of personal data (gathered together as Schedule 2 of the UK Data Protection Act 1998), […]

Tags Access Management, Data Protection Directive, Data Protection Regulation, Incident Response