By Gail Crawford and Ulrich Wuermeling On October 19, 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a ruling on the question of whether IP addresses constitute personal data. The ruling has direct implications on the general question of when data can be regarded as anonymous and, thus, fall outside the scope of data … Continue Reading
By Gail Crawford and Amy Taylor At the end of 2010, the UK Government raised the national threat level for cyber security risk to Tier One (the same tier as the terrorism threat) and announced it was allocating £650 million (around US $1 billion) to governmental cyber security measures and resilience developments. A recent report … Continue Reading
As online services Groupon and Facebook have recently learned, cybersquatters are more than a mere nuisance. Cybersquatting can disrupt or delay business expansion or operations, or compromise security and user experience. Groupon’s planned expansion to Australia was delayed for months because a clone site in Australia named Scoopon purchased the Groupon.com.au domain name, took the … Continue Reading
