Susannah Sheppard outlines the recent decision to approve the WhatsApp acquisition and wonders if the Commission’s traditional approach will be adequate in a data rich world where companies compete in new ways and data competition really matters…
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Mr Justice Arnold has acceded to the request of various high-value trade mark holders and granted the first orders blocking web sites that sell counterfeit goods….
Proposals to create the new offence of ‘disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress’ have now been published…
It may feel like a decade since we had that RtbF judgment in ‘Google Spain’ but it has been just six months. It has been all too easy to be distracted by the wide-ranging and sometimes overy philosohical debates on the topic. Andres Guadamuz takes a very welcome look at the judgment’s application in practice. It is essential reading for anyone contemplating attending the London session of the Google Advisory Council….
It’s been a frenetic week for the SCL, with the Annual Conference still very fresh in our minds. It was a great event to attend and we are grateful not just to the excellent speakers and the SCL staff who made the event go so well but particularly to all those who attended. There was…
Pearse Ryan, Rob Cain and Emma Dunne offer a summary of the recent EBA Opinion. They are not impressed by the Opinion or the potential cost to Ireland of following its recommendations and suggest a more balanced approach that would allow innovation to thrive…
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Melanie Farquharson trials the upcoming Knowledge Management Group event and asks, on behalf of the KM Committee, to hear from members about the difficulties they have encountered in locating expertise within their firm, and about any solutions they have found…
John O’Connor outlines the latest position in the ‘Microsoft Warrant case’ where the Cloud provider was ordered by a US Federal Court to produce its customer’s private e-mail content even though it was stored exclusively outside the USA…
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The Crown Prosecution Service has updated its guidance for prosecutors on ‘revenge pornography’…
Read More… from New CPS Guidance on Revenge Porn Prosecutions
Darin Thompson continues his series of articles on online dispute resolution. In his fourth article in his series, he touches on AI, monitoring and the need for a multidisciplinary approach to design….