DSM: Proposals for New E-commerce Rules
The European Commission has moved one stage on in its proposals for the Digital Single Market (DSM) and published its latest proposals…
The European Commission has moved one stage on in its proposals for the Digital Single Market (DSM) and published its latest proposals…
Mike Ahyow reports on the latest event in the Foundations of IT Law series (Module 5) which was held on 11 May 2016 and hosted by Osborne Clarke LLP….
It has been announced that the Royal Free NHS Trust has disclosed patient health data to Big Data company DeepMind, owned by Google. DeepMind and similar companies are seeking to expand BigData commercial applications, products and services into the hospital (and home) health markets. Dr Paul Lambert considers some of the data protection issues….
Michael Wigley and James Young-Drew highlight the cybersecurity dangers that the Panama Papers hack revealed…
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Whatever the doubts, getting the introduction and implementation of ODR right is crucial and standing on the side-lines criticising won’t assist. But it can only be a help to the many if we look hard at the expensive support that has to go with it…
Bojana Bellamy and Markus Heyder consider the role that the concept of enhanced accountability can play in creating a sustainable data-driven economy and information society. Bojana is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference on the topic ‘Data Protection – Compliance in a Heavily Regulated Environment’…
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Joachim Schwerin confronts blockchain (‘the most disruptive part of the FinTech universe’), touches on crowdfunding and gives his personal views on the way to deal with such disruption from a policy perspective. Joachim is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference on the topic FinTech – IT and Financial Services Regulation….
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Two more articles give a flavour of the major Conference which is to be hosted by SCL…
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Whet your appetite for the IFCLA Conference with two articles from its many speakers…
Lucie Audibert won the SCL Student Essay Prize 2016 with this piece addressing the question: To what extent should the functionality, as opposed to the source code, of computer programs be protected by copyright….
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