ICO issues EE Limited with monetary penalty of £100,000 for sending texts to customers without their consentThe ICO has issued telecoms company EE Limited with a £100,000 monetary penalty for sending over 2.5 million direct marketing messages to its customers, without their consent. The messages encouraged customers to access and use the ‘My EE’ app…
The UK government has asked the Law Commission to review the law around around non-consensual taking, making and sharing of sexual images….
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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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The Competition and Markets Authority has launched a programme of work aimed at tackling fake and misleading online reviews…
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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….
A new adjudication procedure for the resolution of technology disputes in England & Wales…
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The General Data Protection Regulation has been in force for a year. But data protection law doesn’t stand still. One year on, Martin Sloan rounds-up some of the key, ongoing issues….
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New Consumer Advocate role announced for telecoms sector The government has announced plans to create a new independent Consumer Advocate with the aims of enhancing consumer protection against unfair practices in the telecommunications sector. Legislation will be introduced to create the role, which will have the power to support consumers. This aims to ensure that they…
Charlie Morgan and Rebecca Read give a brief overview of what artificial intelligence (AI) means, assess how process automation and machine learning is having an impact on dispute resolution and what things might look like in future….
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Report by Technology and Law Public Policy Commission published…