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The Court of Appeal has ruled on an interesting point of law, to do with a UK mobile operator and Norwich Pharmacal orders. What is a Norwich Pharmacal order A Norwich Pharmacal order is a court Read more

We are now three or so months into the world of running decoded.legal, and doing legal work, exclusively* on Linux1, so I thought I'd write about it. I'm a client. How does this affect me? Probably Read more

Blake E Reid, an excellent US tech/telecoms law professor, tweeted: This is a good argument for Internet law folks to take telecom law, where the environmental impacts of Internet infrastructure Read more

It's a strange world. I run a law firm which itself runs almost entirely on Free software, yet I don't get to write about Free / open source software as much as I'd like. But, today, I've got a good Read more

Have you put up, or are thinking of putting up, audio and video recording equipment around and outside your home? Then this post is for you. It's about a decision of the Oxford County Court, for Read more

This blog post is a short(ish) guide to the core issues in handling subject access requests under the UK GDPR. If you have received a request and you are not sure where to start, this will help you Read more

This blog post looks at the obligations imposed on telecommunications operators under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, to provide communications data in response to a notice from UK public Read more

As readers of my personal blog, or people who know me, will probably be aware, I'm a proponent, and user, of Free and open source software. And this got me thinking: how would the draft Online Safety Read more