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…
In his monthly column, the Editor thinks data is missing from what currently passes for the Brexit debate….
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The European Commission has published the guidance after Regulation EU 2018/1807 came into force on 28 May 2019….
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National Cyber Security Centre publishes design principles for cyber security The National Cyber Security Centre has published design principles for cyber-security. The principles are intended to help ensure that the networks and technologies which underpin modern life are designed and built securely and relate to both digital systems and cyber-physical systems. They are aimed at…
The State Data Protection Inspectorate in Lithuania has imposed an administrative fine of EUR 61,500 for breaches of the GDPR….
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The text of a speech presented by Ashley Hurst, Chair of the SCL Media Group, to the Westminster Media Forum policy conference on why he thinks the Online Harms White Paper and the duty of care is not the answer to online disinformation and why the way forward should be focused on technology and education…
The winner of the inaugural SCL Sir Henry Brooke Student Essay Prize 2019 Winner, Robert Lewis, takes a wide-ranging look at the disparities between the laws regulating social networks and those regulating its users and the traditional media…
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The Communications Data Acquisition Regulations 2019 have been made….
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