Blockchain and Identity: a Solution without a Problem?
Lorna Brazell wonders if some blockchain hype has things out of order…
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Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Legal Status of a Crypto Token
Leigh Sagar offers some thoughts, and handy definitions, relating to cryptocurrencies and a striking visualisation technique for grasping the concept of crypto tokens…
Data Protection: ICO Charges under the GDPR
Laurence Eastham worries about the ICO’s future funding and its capacity to do all that it might need to….
Editorial October/November 2017
Laurence Eastham explains why he broke his own rules, reviews the latest issue and warns of a coming reckoning…
ICYMI October/November 2017
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A flurry of news items from the SCL web site that you might have missed…
Cases Update October/November 2017
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These are edited versions of some of the cases reported on the SCL site over recent months which are not covered by articles in this edition. Fuller reports are available on the SCL website….
‘A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting’ – take it 3 times a day and finish the course
Charles Drayson reviews the fourth edition of this well respected work and adds a few pithy observations on the state of IT contract drafting…
SCL Event Report: Sextech, Porn and the Law
Lorraine Chimbga reflects on a thought-provoking session which explored the issues surrounding sextech and which raised fundamental questions about the type of society we are moulding….
WhatsApp and Facebook: Article 29 Working Party Dissatisfied with Privacy Changes
The Article 29 Working Party has delivered a strong letter to Jan Koum, the CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp, expressing its continuing dissatisfaction with that app’s policies on the sharing of data…
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Where Standards and Contracts Collide
Mark Bailey sees important lessons for tech lawyers in a case concerning wind farm design defects…