The Competition and Markets Authority has launched a programme of work aimed at tackling fake and misleading online reviews…
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In the second of our series of this year’s Student Essay prize winners, runner-up Jordan Briggs thinks technology could provide the answers to the problem of harmful content….
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The Council of the European Union has adopted new rules seeking to establish a legal framework that guarantees transparent terms and conditions for business users of online platforms…
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The ICO has published an update report on adtech and real time bidding and will review progress towards the end of the year…
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Failure to notify EU to blame…
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The General Data Protection Regulation has been in force for a year. But data protection law doesn’t stand still. One year on, Martin Sloan rounds-up some of the key, ongoing issues….
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In the April issue of Computers and Law, Neil Brown questioned the thinking behind the CJEU decision in Buivids. In this response Matthew Holman comes to their rescue and argues that their thinking was right but suggests we need to look for new ways to regulate individuals in today’s content sharing culture….
The Advocate General rules in case C-18/18 Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook Ireland Limited that Facebook can be required by a court to seek and identify all comments identical to a defamatory comment that has been found to be illegal…
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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