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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Court of Justice rules on whether online platforms must offer telephone number to consumers
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that Amazon is not always obliged to make a telephone number available to consumers before a contract is made….
Thinking harder about data ‘ownership’ and regulation of data driven business
Peter Leonard challenges some accepted wisdom about the value of big data and how data driven businesses are regulated….
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Do social network providers require (further?) regulation? #2
In the second of our series of this year’s Student Essay prize winners, runner-up Jordan Briggs thinks technology could provide the answers to the problem of harmful content….
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Directed Acyclic Graphs: the need for attention from data protection authorities
Anne Rose explains an evolution in distributed ledger technology and raises some potential GDPR pitfalls…
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Weekly Techlaw News Round-Up
A round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site…
EVENT REPORT: Back to Basics – The Technology: 9 Key Takeaways
Gerald Brent picks out his own personal highlights from our recent Back to Basics: The Technology event…
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CJEU: web-based email not an electronic communications service
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in Google LLC v Bundesrepublik Deutschland Case C-193/18 that web-based email is not an electronic communications service….
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Techsplainer: 5G (and a brief history of 1 to 4)
In our regular column explaining the terminology behind the tech, the SCL’s resident geek, Simon Forrester, recounts the technological history leading to 5G….
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Smart Contracts: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Part 1: The Good (and a short history)
In this two part article Rachel Goss take a fresh look at the perennial question of whether smart contracts can ever work under English contract law by looking at the good, the bad and the ugly aspects associated with them. In Part 1 she provides a short history of smart contracts and a look at the good….