Privacy

The Advocate General to the European Court has published his recommendation for the Court's response to questions raised in the long-running Belgian case of SABAM v Scarlet. In 2007 the Belgian court ordered the ISP Scarlet, at the request of the copyright enforcement society SABAM, to implement specific Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) systems to detect and prevent its users from exchanging copyrighted material on peer-to-peer networks.

Cambridge University gave a report at Networkshop on their work with Google to make outsourcing of staff and student calendars compliant with UK data protection law. This was achieved through a combination of individual contract terms, obtaining assurances about Google’s security processes, and design of the local Cambridge infrastructure.

Interesting to see an awareness of developments in European privacy law in a presentation from Google at the UCISA Management Conference.

An interesting morning yesterday at the launch of the Ministry of Justice's Response to the Call for Evidence on the Current Data Protection Legislative Framework.