US Privacy Law: What’s happening at state level?
Liz Harding looks at some of the state level privacy initiatives currently being considered or progressed in the US…
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Liz Harding looks at some of the state level privacy initiatives currently being considered or progressed in the US…
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ICO issues EE Limited with monetary penalty of £100,000 for sending texts to customers without their consentThe ICO has issued telecoms company EE Limited with a £100,000 monetary penalty for sending over 2.5 million direct marketing messages to its customers, without their consent. The messages encouraged customers to access and use the ‘My EE’ app…
Anne Rose explains an evolution in distributed ledger technology and raises some potential GDPR pitfalls…
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Gerald Brent picks out his own personal highlights from our recent Back to Basics: The Technology event…
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A round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site…
We were delighted to be able to offer a number of bursaries towards the cost of attending the SCL “Back to basics – the technology” Conference, held at Hogan Lovells on 20 May 2019. We invited firms to nominate a tech law “rising star” to attend at a subsidised rate. These future leading lights of…
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The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges for the 3.4 GHz Frequency Band and the 3.6 GHz Frequency Band) Regulations 2019 SI 2019/1004 made These Regulations set the level of charges payable to OFCOM in respect of the licences of the Spectrum Access 3.5 GHz licence class granted under section 8 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006…
The General Data Protection Regulation has been in force for a year. But data protection law doesn’t stand still. One year on, Martin Sloan rounds-up some of the key, ongoing issues….
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New Consumer Advocate role announced for telecoms sector The government has announced plans to create a new independent Consumer Advocate with the aims of enhancing consumer protection against unfair practices in the telecommunications sector. Legislation will be introduced to create the role, which will have the power to support consumers. This aims to ensure that they…
The European Commission has published the guidance after Regulation EU 2018/1807 came into force on 28 May 2019….
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