ICO and Facebook reach agreement regarding misuse of data in political campaigns
Facebook agrees to pay £500,000 fine but does not admit liability…
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Disruption and consumer harm arising from IT failures in the financial services sector is “unacceptable” says Treasury Committee
Conclusions set out in report published by the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee….
Event Report: Making a Career of IT
Anna Hoffman reports on the SCL Junior Lawyers’ Group meeting ‘Making a Career of IT’ hosted by 4 Pump Court on 22 October 2019….
FCA consults on fees and registration proposals for cryptoasset business
Consultation paper issued in advance of new role as money laundering and counter terrorist supervisor for cryptoasset business in operation from January 2020…
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BEREC issues four consultations relating to telecoms and internet BEREC has issued four new consultations. The first relates to its updated net neutrality guidelines and ends on 28 November 2019. Further, BEREC is consulting on its project on identifying business requirements for the successful deployment of 5G in Europe, which also ends on 28 November…
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Age verification for online pornography dropped
The UK government has dropped its plans to introduce an age verification system for online pornography….
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ICO issues blog post on enabling access, erasure, and rectification rights in AI systems
The ICO has issued a blog post on access, erasure, and rectification rights in AI systems….
SEC halts Telegram’s alleged $1.7 billion unregistered digital token offering
Latest move comes as Facebook’s Libra project loses more potential partners…
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In Other News: This week’s Techlaw Round-Up
A round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site…
The internet: broken or about to be broken?
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….