Search engines must agree to de-referencing requests: Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-136/17 G.C. and Others v CNIL
The Advocate General has delivered his opinion in Case C-136/17 G.C. and Others v CNIL…
Intellectual Property
An Account Information Service Is Not Just A Payment Service…
What regulations kick in when a third party wishes to use banking customer data? Simon Deane-Johns outlines some of the complex technical and regulatory requirements imposed by the Payment Services Directive on account information service providers (AISPs)…
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GDPR & Territorial Scope: The EDPB’s guidelines
Cynthia O’Donoghue and John O’Brien of Reed Smith summarise the EDPB’s long-awaited guidance on the territorial scope of the GDPR that is currently out for consultation….
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Copyright, news and search results: Summary of the AG’s opinion in VG Media v Google
The AG states that German rules made in 2013 requiring permission should not be applied….
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Where is the ePrivacy Regulation?
Debbie Heywood provides a timely update on the progress of the ePrivacy Regulation and considers whether the latest draft differs from the current state of play in terms of cookies and direct marketing….
Telecoms Code: Operators’ Entitlement to Survey New Sites
Richard Willcox covers an important decision on the new Electronic Communications Code, which answers the hotly-contested issue of whether landowners can avoid the imposition of telecoms apparatus by preventing operators from undertaking initial suitability surveys….
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Contract Law – in Retrospect and in Prospect
For the last ten years Richard Stephens has provided an annual update on contract law for the SCL and also offers it by way of internal training for law firms and in-house legal departments. That puts him in a superb position to take a look at what has happened over the last decade and think about the major themes in contracts and contract law over those years. This is the latest in our series of articles from the Tech Law Masterclass appearing in the October/November issue of Computers & Law….
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Unfair Advantage of Famous Reputation Brands?
Lakmal Walawage considers questions about trade marks and domain names following the Court of Appeal ruling in Argos Ltd v Argos Systems Inc, taking account of the impact online, internationally and programmatically…
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FRAND and STEP: Latest Judgment from the Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal has upheld the ruling of Birss J in Unwired Planet v Huawei….
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Whither FinTech? Whither AI?
In another teaser from the forthcoming issue of Computers & Law, Simon Deane-Johns asks some searching questions about short-term problems and long-term challenges…