A service using an electronic app to connect passengers with taxi drivers is an Information Society service under the E-Commerce Directive (2000/31/EC), as long as the app is not be inherently linked to the taxi transport service so that it does not form an integral part of it….
The CJEU upheld the principle of net neutrality when considering packages offered by a service provider in Hungary….
Read More… from Court of Justice considers interpretation of Open Internet Regulation for first time
This entry to our annual Sir Henry Brooke Student Essay Prize by Benjamin Evans from the University of East Anglia was highly commended by the judges. A second highly commended entry will be published next week….
Changes would ensure more clarity and more effective targeting of serious harm and criminality….
Read More… from Law Commission proposes changes to communication offences
Application refused as there were triable issues on subsistence and infringement….
Anne Rose & Sian Harding summarise new guidance on blockchain law and regulation published by the Law Society….
Read More… from New Blockchain guidance published by Tech London Advocates and The Law Society
National data strategy consultation launched closing on 2 December….
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Disclosures of official secrets could be made for legal advice purposes if lawyers have been pre-vetted….
Read More… from Law Commission issues final report on protection of official data
This year’s winner of our annual Sir Henry Brooke Student Essay Prize is Isabel Lightbody from the University of Law and Dentons….
The European Data Protection Board has set up a Schrems II task force to respond and has also issued two sets of guidelines on the meaning of controller/processor and targeting social media users….
Read More… from EDPB: 101 identical complaints lodged with European DPAs since Schrems II