Jon Baines asks whether the FCA – or any data controller – can any longer argue that it’s too expensive to have to rectify inaccurate personal data…
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Lynn Richmond looks at the way we apportion blame in law and the need for a reconsideration of the relevant law in the light of the development of AI. She goes on to bring the issue close to home by considering the liability of lawyers in the future AI-influenced practice of law…
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the posting on a website of a photograph that was freely accessible on another website with the consent of the author requires a new authorisation by that author…
Dr W Kuan Hon has a new gadget and she loves it…
Looking across jurisdictions and back to the 18th century, Lawrence Akka QC and Henry Byam-Cook consider a question for the here and now…
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In a first interim report in its Disinformation and ‘fake news’ inquiry, the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has issued a series of stark warnings and made a series of recommendations….
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Dr W Kuan Hon explains the impact of the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018…
There is a widely held view that blockchain and the GDPR may be incompatible. Ben Gibson suggests an approach that would increase privacy protection by virtue of the use of zero-knowledge protocols in the context of distributed ledger technology…
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The Committee has little confidence in the ability of HMCTS to deliver the sweeping reforms and considers the £1.2 billion modernisation programme hugely ambitious…
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The EU Commission has fined Google €4.34 billion ‘for illegal practices regarding Android mobile devices to strengthen dominance of Google’s search engine’…