David Chaplin picks out what he thinks was the central theme from last week’s sprawling, enthralling SCL Annual Conference…
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Graham Smith’s Keynote Speech to the SCL Annual Conference 2019 in which he argues that proposed cures for a broken internet risk harming the patient….
Caroline, Gould, SCL CEO, looks forward to this year’s ground-breaking Annual Lecture…
CJEU rules, in Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook, that EU law does not prevent Facebook from being ordered to remove identical and, in certain circumstances, equivalent comments previously declared to be illegal nor does it prevent such orders applying worldwide….
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Cyber Assessment Frameworks update, E-Privacy Regulations Discussion note, No Deal Brexit.eu domain names and more: a round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site…
Allan Murray summarises the key learning outcomes from the SCL Masterclass on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Disputes held in London on 24 September 2019…
The Court of Appeal has allowed, on a unanimous basis, an appeal in Lloyd v Google LLC [2019] EWCA Civ 1599 which may open the way for mass data protection claims….
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The CJEU has ruled that storing cookies requires internet users’ specific active consent and that pre-ticked tick-boxes are insufficient….
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Leah Grolman thinks autonomous vehicles provide the ideal test case for examining the relationship between consumer protection law and software liability and that the Law Commissions have failed to grasp the opportunity to examine the issue….
Emily Barwell considers the legal considerations when setting up a data trust and discusses when it may be appropriate to use this new and innovative concept emerging in the data ethics space…
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