Radar: Technology & Communications Update - June 2011
14-Jun-2011 | IT & Telecoms, Technology, Media & Telecoms
In this month's issue of Radar we continue to focus on the challenges raised by the changes to the law regarding cookies.
- Cookie rules confusion prompts Government response and extended compliance deadline from the regulator
The publication of new cookie rules and guidance from the Information Commissioner last month did little to resolve industry confusion and concern about the new consent requirements. More guidance has been issued as a result although ambiguities still remain. - Is change really coming to the UK’s intellectual property rights regime?
The Government commissioned review of the UK intellectual property rights regime was published a week before the European Commission published its own strategy so what, if anything, is likely to change? - Privacy vs free speech
The potential conflict between the right to privacy and the right to freedom of expression has been thrown into sharp relief over the issue of super-injunctions and anonymised injunctions which place reporting restrictions on the media. - Where are we on geolocation data and privacy?
Google, Microsoft and Apple have all been in the news lately accused of excessive collection of geolocation data which has attracted the attention of the privacy lobby and regulators.
Lawyers Graham Hann, Glyn Morgan, Christopher Jeffery, Patrick Clark
