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HOLLYWOOD HACKING: WIKILEAKS
“Hollywood Hacking” is the trusty cinema cliche whereby a geek with a laptop hits lots of buttons on his keyboard very quickly, says “we’re in” (or something similarly breezy), and gains access to the...
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The forecast: clouds, with grey linings, perhaps turning to silver later
Samsung has today announced the first publicly available laptop based on Google’s Chrome OS. The laptop is aimed at both consumers and corporate users. What’s different? Unlike many laptops and...
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“Midnight Movies”, ACS Law and the ICO
The Information Commissioner has been criticised for levying a monetary penalty of just £1,000 against a law firm whose severe security shortcomings led to the sensitive personal data of 6,000 people...
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Cloud Computing and the risk of Data Ransom
There have been lots of articles about cloud computing by lawyers. Most of them: i) have a dodgy pun in the title; and ii) bang on about data protection and the risk that your data is outside Europe....
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Targeted online advertising – are you aware of how it works?
A couple of weeks ago, I was looking at flights and hotels for a trip to Reykjavik this January. One of the websites that I visited was hotels.com, following a link from the Tripadvisor website. This...
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Not all clouds have silver linings – how information security varies between...
You may have read in the press that Google has entered into its biggest cloud-hosting deal to date. And surprisingly this deal is with one of Spain’s largest banks, BBVA. The fact that a bank is...
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Apps and privacy – who is responsible?
California’s attorney general last week announced a new rule, seemingingly agreed with the major apps vendors (Apple, Google/Android, RIM, Windows, HP and Amazon), requiring mobile apps to have in...
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Law Society cloud computing guidance: extra tips
The Law Society of Scotland recently issued guidance on cloud computing services following consultation with law firms, in-house counsel and cloud providers. While some of the guidance inevitably...
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Reselling “used” software licences – what does the Oracle decision allow you...
Last week, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) published its decision in a long-running German case between a company called UsedSoft and the US software giant Oracle. The case hit the headlines...
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iHard: Bruce Willis and ownership of downloaded content
It seems that last week’s widely-repeated story that Bruce Willis was preparing to sue Apple for ownership of songs downloaded from iTunes was unverified and probably untrue. Journalists can be...
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Cloud computing and “data ransom”– it’s not a myth
Here on TechBlog we have mentioned on a couple of occasions (here and here) that one of the biggest risks arising out of the use of cloud computing/third party hosted services is the concept of “data...
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Techblogger article on “data ransom” and supplier insolvency
I have an article on supplier insolvency in the latest edition of Supply Management, the official journal of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. My article looks at the recent involvency...
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Select Committee publishes report into e-crime
Following a 10-month inquiry, the Home Affairs Select Committee has published its first ever report into e-crime on 30 July 2013, and it makes for rather alarming reading. The National Security...
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Cabinet Office publishes guidance on public sector cloud computing
The Cabinet Office has published new guidance on the use of cloud computing services by public sector organisations. As part of the Cabinet Office’s target to get 50% of public sector ICT spend based...
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Escrow for cloud and SAAS services
Last February, I blogged about the fallout from data centre provider 2e2 going into administration. The incident highlighted some of the key risks that can arise out of the use of third party...
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ICO launches new Privacy Impact Assessment Code of Practice
The UK Information Commissioner (ICO) has published an updated version of its code of practice on privacy impact assessments. The Code is vital reading for all organisations (large and small) that deal...
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EU data protection authorities issue updated opinions and guidance on cloud...
The Article 29 Working Party (A29WP), a grouping of representatives from the 28 EU national data protection authorities, has issued a number of opinions and working papers in recent weeks that are...
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US court orders Microsoft to disclose data held on server in Ireland
Last week I blogged about the Article 29 Working Party’s “approval” of Microsoft’s terms and conditions for its cloud based services such as Azure, Dynamics and Office365. The Article 29 Working...
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New ICO guidance on information security for online services
The Information Commissioner (ICO) has this morning published a guidance note on protecting personal data in online services. The report is subtitled “learning from the mistakes of others”, a not so...
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New ICO guidance on the use of cloud services
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published new guidance on the use of cloud computing services. The guidance is intended to provide an overview of how data protection law applies to...
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