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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Christopher Ireland reports on the recent lecture by Professor David Ormerod touching on the Law Commission’s work around online harm and abuse…
Darren Grayson Chng, our Singapore Correspondent, reports on the background and passage of Singapore’s controversial fake news law which has extra territorial consequences…
The UK government has published its response to the DCSM Select Committee’s final report on Disinformation….
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Draft investigatory powers regulations published, Law Society guidance, gambling news and HMTCS blog post in this week’s round-up of techlaw news from the past week…
Consultation open until 14th June with interim report to follow Summer 2019…
The winner of this year’s SCL Student Essay Prize is Robert Lewis. The runners-up are Jordan Briggs and John-Paul Tettmar Saleh…
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European Data Protection Board adopts guidelines on application of Article 6(1)(b) GDPR The European Data Protection Board has adopted guidelines on the scope and application of Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 in relation to information society services. In its guidelines, the EDPB makes general observations regarding data protection principles and the…
The UK government has announced that age verification measures for online pornography under the Digital Economy Act 2017 will come into force in the UK on 15 July 2019….
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