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….
Full response and policy recommendations on online harms due by end of year, along with call for evidence on loot boxes….
Joint report focusses on automation and technology as well as calling for changes to competition law….
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….
Statement on Article 23 of the GDPR adopted in response to a letter from Civil Liberties Union for Europe, Access Now and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union about the Hungarian Government’s Decree 179/2020 of 4 May, which suspends the GDPR in relation to dealing with the pandemic…
New Digital Services Act will replace the 20-year old regime….
Read More… from European Commission consults on replacement for the e-commerce directive
Increasingly globalised and digital work, coupled with the need for a more sustainable economy, requires review of competition law tools….
Read More… from European Commission consults on new competition tool
Created for SCL by Nick Watson and Gary Waters…
Read More… from SCL Weekly Wellbeing: What Are You Really Chasing?
A team from Arthur Cox assess progress at the Irish Central Bank Innovation Hub since its launch two years and what it can tell us about the technology developers are working on now….
Read More… from The Irish Central Bank Innovation Hub Two Years On
The onset of the coronavirus caught many napping. Some organisations sprang into action and responded effectively. Others are still searching government websites in the hope they will tell them what to do. Many will go out of business. How can you use this crisis to best improve your own corporate resilience? SCL member William Hooper provides some words of wisdom on how to prepare for the next crisis, in both IT and non-IT activities….