A Legal Statement on the status of cryptoassets and smart contracts has been launched by the Chancellor of the High Court…
The High Court has ruled that 77m Ltd’s use of address data infringed the database rights of Ordnance Survey Ltd…
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ASA upholds complaint about targeting of online advertising The ASA has upheld a complaint this week relating to an advertisement which appeared on a children’s TV channel for Popjam, a social media site for 7-12 year olds. The complainant was concerned that the advertisement’s encouragement to “get likes and followers to level up” could be…
High Court issues decision in Warner Music UK Ltd & Ors v Tunein Inc [2019] EWHC 2923 (Ch)…
In our first contribution to our Predictions and Reflections for the year Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, reflects on her year in open source software, where it has come from and why it matters for the future….
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Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill has first reading in Parliament The Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill has had its first reading in Parliament. The bill will provides for new powers to ensure that airports modernise their airspace, and fine those that don’t implement changes quickly enough. The bill will also hand…
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The Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission have published their second consultation paper on the regulation of highly automated road passenger services. They provisionally propose a single licensing system for all operators…
Proposed legislation includes online harms, drones, broadband as well as new initiatives in research and development and the space technology sector….
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Graham Smith’s Keynote Speech to the SCL Annual Conference 2019 in which he argues that proposed cures for a broken internet risk harming the patient….
The CJEU has ruled that storing cookies requires internet users’ specific active consent and that pre-ticked tick-boxes are insufficient….
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