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13 November 2015 / Tom Morrison
Issue: 7676 / Categories: Features , Data protection , Freedom of Information
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Tom Morrison returns with a review of the world of information law

It has been a busy year for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), but some significant changes are afoot which makes it unlikely that 2016 will be any quieter.

We started the year with the usual glut of information law-related news including a flurry of enforcement action. This time it was high street shoe retailer Office in the spotlight, having had to enter into an undertaking with the ICO following a hack of Office’s systems which exposed the personal data of over one million of its customers. Contact details and website passwords were held in an unencrypted database on servers which were due to be decommissioned. For businesses this highlights not only the well rehearsed concerns around data security but also the fact that holding onto information for longer than is needed automatically increases risk. For individuals, it is a timely reminder to make sure that you do not use the same password for multiple services otherwise when one is hacked all become vulnerable.

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Mourant—Stephen Alexander

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360 Law Group—Anthony Gahan

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NEWS
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
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