The Long Goodbye
Laurence Eastham looks back at almost 25 years working with SCL…
Publishing & social media
ICO Report on its Investigation into the Use of Data Analytics in Political Campaigns
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…
Abusive and Offensive Online Communications: Law Reform Call
The Law Commission has published its Scoping Report assessing the state of the law concerning abusive and offensive online communications…
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Digital Services Tax
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…
Whither FinTech? Whither AI?
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…
The Regulated End of Internet Law, and the Return to Computer and Information Law?
It seemed unfair to hang on to this article from Professor Chris Marsden, another in our Tech Law Masterclass series for the October/November issue, when Internet regulation is such a hot topic. Chris looks back at the Internet’s legal history, with a view to helping us to move forward in an informed manner…
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A Message about Media
In this, the second ‘teaser’ for the Tech Law Masterclass series of articles which will appear in the October/November issue of Computers & Law, Daithí Mac Síthigh considers approaches to regulation of communications of all kinds, reflecting on lessons from the past – especially lessons about categorisation and how specific regulation should be…
SCL Conference 18 – Flash Event Flashes Past
Laurence Eastham reflects on the SCL Annual Conference 2018, which had keynotes, panels, a conversation and flash talks…
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EU Commission Proposal on Online Terrorist Content
The European Commission has published proposals for new legislation ‘to get terrorist content off the web, making sure that the same obligations are imposed in a uniform manner across the whole Union’….
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Scoping Exercise
Mark O’Conor reflects on SCL’s activities and looks forward to the forthcoming SCL Conference…