Plan seeks to make sure that “online platforms to deliver on their commitments” in advance of 2019 elections for the European Parliament…
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It must be nearly Christmas as we are seeking your thoughts on what 2019 holds for the tech law community…
Debbie Heywood provides a timely update on the progress of the ePrivacy Regulation and considers whether the latest draft differs from the current state of play in terms of cookies and direct marketing….
David Chaplin, the new SCL Editor, thanks his predecessor and asks for people to write to him,…
Darren Grayson Chng, our Singapore correspondent, reports on recently updated guidelines in Singapore clarifying how Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act applies to national identification documents….
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Laurence Eastham looks back at almost 25 years working with SCL…
The ICO’s wide-ranging updating report to Parliament, including coverage of the data protection aspects of the actions of Cambridge Analytica, Aggregate IQ, Facebook and Leave.EU, has been published…
The Law Commission has published its Scoping Report assessing the state of the law concerning abusive and offensive online communications…
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The Chancellor’s announcement of a digital services tax has left many scratching their head as to how it is to work. HMRC has issued an explainer which covers some basic questions…
In another teaser from the forthcoming issue of Computers & Law, Simon Deane-Johns asks some searching questions about short-term problems and long-term challenges…