Workplace Testing for Coronavirus: Data Protection Considerations Can’t Be Factored In Overnight!
Jagvinder Singh Kang stresses the importance of early action on data protection if employers seek to introduce workplace testing for coronavirus…
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UN seeks cooperation on digital technologies
Call for collaboration set out in new report published by the Secretary-General…
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Artificial Intelligence and the Boardroom Risk
Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to deliver huge economic rewards. In doing so, however, it creates a new risk profile for businesses to manage. In this article, Matthew Walker and Tom Whittaker explore how those business risks could result in boardroom risks for corporate directors and officers….
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Contact Tracing Apps: The Latest Efforts in the US
Dr Lance Eliot, our new Associate Editor in the US, reviews how state and Federal governments are working in a wild west of contact tracing apps…
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The MIT Contact Tracing App Database
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has collated a page of contract tracing apps from around the world….
Weekly Wellbeing: The 21 Day Focus Challenge
Created for SCL by Nick Watson and Gary Waters…
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This Week’s Techlaw News Round-Up
Progress report on e-privacy regulation, TikTOK and the EDPB, delay to drones legislation, outsourcing playbook updated, UK strategy for tech industry and more in this week’s round-up of other techlaw news from the past week….
UK government publishes response to Select Committee report on immersive and addictive technologies: calls for evidence on ‘loot boxes’
Full response and policy recommendations on online harms due by end of year, along with call for evidence on loot boxes….
Automation, the march of the ‘digital giants’ and the future of work examined in Covid-19 rapid review
Joint report focusses on automation and technology as well as calling for changes to competition law….
Of Liability For Contactless Card Payments And The End of Unilateral Change Clauses: Part 1
In the first of a two part article, Simon Deane-Johns looks at some surprising consequences (if followed) of the Advocate General’s opinion on contactless payments in Denizbank. In Part 1, he sets out the facts and why the outcome will be so important. Part 2 will look at the questions of whether contactless payments are anonymous….