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….
Response published to call for evidence initiated after collapse of trial in R v F & D…
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Increase revealed in Irish Data Protection Commission’s first annual report….
Recommendations build on those presented in an interim report published in July 2018…
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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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…
The ICO is examining data protection issues in the adtech industry…
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The Committee on Advertising Practice has published new standards to protect children and young people from irresponsible gambling advertisements, including online….
Professor Chris Marsden and Dr Trisha Meyer summarise the recommendations for regulating fake news set out in their report presented to the European Parliament….
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Lucie Audibert, of Taylor Wessing, reviews a book that demonstrates that tech law is not a niche…
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