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Everything by consent?

As a privacy-sensitive person, I’m concerned that the trend in European Data Protection law seems to be to place more and more weight on my consent as justification for processing my personal data. In theory that sounds fine – given full information and a free choice, I can decide whether or not I’m willing for […]

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Defamation Act – detailed guidance

The Ministry of Justice have now published detailed instructions for website operators who want to use the new Defamation Act 2013 process to handle allegations that third-party postings are defamatory. The instructions set out clearly what information needs to be in each of the communications sent and received by the website operator, and they seem […]