Techlaw News Round-Up
EDPB consultation on connected vehicles, European parliament resolution on AI and joint statement on data protection compliance in financial services in this week’s round-up of techlaw news from the past week…
Publishing & social media
The SCL Student Tech Law Challenge – a winning account
Lauren Graham, one half of the winning team, gives her account of the recent Student Tech Law Challenge held at University of Law, London…
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‘Digital world requires a new approach to regulation’ says House of Lords Communications Select Committee
The House of Lords Communication Select Committee has issued its report on Regulating in a Digital World…
6 Key Takeaways from the Data Protection Annual Update
A summary of the most important themes to emerge from this sell-out event, hosted at Reed Smith on 31 January 2019…
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Newly adopted draft consumer rights Directive seeks to improve transparency of online marketplaces
The Permanent Representatives Committee of the Council of the European Union has agreed on the Council’s position on a draft directive which amends four existing EU directives protecting consumers’ interests….
Threat posed by social media to jury trials ‘manageable’: Attorney General
Response published to call for evidence initiated after collapse of trial in R v F & D…
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Data breach notifications to Irish Data Protection Commission up 70% in first year of GDPR
Increase revealed in Irish Data Protection Commission’s first annual report….
“Facebook seems willing neither to be regulated nor scrutinised”: Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee publishes Final Report on Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Recommendations build on those presented in an interim report published in July 2018…
Buivids: a further over-extension of the domestic purposes exemption?
Neil Brown comments on a recent decision of the CJEU on the application of the data protection framework to everyone’s life online….
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Copyright Directive agreed by European Commission, Parliament and Council of the European Union
The Copyright Directive has been agreed by European Commission, Parliament and Council of the European Union. In September 2016, the European Commission proposed to modernise EU copyright rules as part of the Digital Single Market Strategy. After much (fraught) negotiation, political agreement on the text of the proposed Directive has now been reached by the…