Predictions 2018 – 3 & 4
Soften the Monday morning blues by opening two doors in the Predictions 2018 advent calendar. Contributions from predictions debutant Lucy McCormick and old-hand Andrew Haslam…
Innovation
Age Verification Dangers
Following on from a widely welcomed presentation at SCL’s Sextech, Porn and the Law event in October, Pandora Blake offers a fuller analysis of the dangers and difficulties that come with the introduction of age verification in accordance with the Digital Economy Act 2017…
Data Protection: Controllers, Processors, Contracts, Liability – the ICO Draft Guidance
Kuan Hon offers a careful analysis and critique of the ICO draft guidance on contracts between controllers and processors…
Smart Contracts: Double-edged Sword
Katie Simmonds and Jonathan Smart explain that smart contracts do not presage the death of lawyers but provide a useful tool for lawyers to exploit…
Artificial Intelligence: The Real Legal Issues
Based on his presentation at the SCL Conference in June, John C. Buyers takes us on a tour of the AI issues for tech lawyers and points out the hotspots…
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Establishing Norms for Contract Terms – A Fool’s Errand or the Future of Contracting?
Wendy Lawson-Shanks explains why the IACCM is looking at new approaches to contract standards and outlines her view of the future…
Book Review: Data Localization Laws and Policy
Laurence Eastham reviews this close examination of international transfers from W Kuan Hon (Edward Elgar Publishing, 479 pp, £110/£99, ISBN 978 1 78643 196 7; also available as an ebook)….
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Editorial June/July
Laurence Eastham reviews this issue and some forthcoming SCL events…
The SCL Annual Conference 2017: A Sketch
David Chaplin, the SCL’s Development Editor, offers some brief observations on last week’s outstanding Annual Conference…
RegTech: When Regulation Meets Technology
What is RegTech? Lorraine Chimbga and Ryan Barnes give the answers and explain why it is having an impact on the financial industry and how it might have an impact on lawyers too….