Influencing Technology-related Legislation: the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 and Legal Professional Privilege
Carolina Gasparoli and Tim Hill recount the history of the battle to gain greater protection for LPP…
Privacy & Data Protection
Artificial Intelligence: The Real Legal Issues
Based on his presentation at the SCL Conference in June, John C. Buyers takes us on a tour of the AI issues for tech lawyers and points out the hotspots…
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Netflix and Go: Expanding Access to Online Content Services when Travelling within the EU
In a very timely article, Elizabeth Fitzgerald explains the effect of a new EU Regulation affecting portability of online services…
SCL Event Report: Foundations of IT Law Programme – An Introduction to Regulated Environments
David Berry reports on the latest event in the SCL Foundations of IT Law programme – Module 12 ‘An Introduction to Regulated Environments’, which took place on 11 July 2017 and was hosted by Stephenson Harwood…
House of Lords Committee Report on Brexit and Data Protection
The Government should pursue full regulatory equivalence with the EU with respect to data protection in order to ensure unhindered data flows between the UK and EU post-Brexit, offer stability and certainty for businesses and maintain police and security cooperation, says the EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee in its report entitled ‘Brexit: the EU data protection package’….
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Fake News: Striking a Balance between Regulation and Responsibility
Ashley Hurst sets out an approach to fake news that shifts the focus away from some of the more strident ‘calls for action’…
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GDPR: Data Protection Impact Assessments
Olivia Whitcroft takes a careful look at DPIAs in light of the further guidance on the GDPR that has been issued since its finalisation…
Global Orders and Google Inc v Equustek Solutions Inc
Dr Paul Lambert summarises an important judgment of the Canadian Supreme Court and comments on its global impact…
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Book Review: Data Localization Laws and Policy
Laurence Eastham reviews this close examination of international transfers from W Kuan Hon (Edward Elgar Publishing, 479 pp, £110/£99, ISBN 978 1 78643 196 7; also available as an ebook)….
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Royal Free and the Road to Hell
Sometimes a punishment is necessary – even when it’s pointless. Laurence Eastham joins the despair over the ICO’s approach on enforcement in light of the Royal Free/DeepMind ‘failure to comply’…