Age verification for online pornography dropped
The UK government has dropped its plans to introduce an age verification system for online pornography….
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Publishing & social media
SEC halts Telegram’s alleged $1.7 billion unregistered digital token offering
Latest move comes as Facebook’s Libra project loses more potential partners…
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Queen’s Speech: legislation of interest to technology lawyers
Proposed legislation includes online harms, drones, broadband as well as new initiatives in research and development and the space technology sector….
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Oxford Internet Institute suggests need for collective actions to help plug gaps in data rights & political campaigning law
Report examines the scope of the law concerning political campaigning and the current regulatory gaps in this area….
The internet: broken or about to be broken?
Graham Smith’s Keynote Speech to the SCL Annual Conference 2019 in which he argues that proposed cures for a broken internet risk harming the patient….
EVENT REPORT: The New Technology Lawyer – The SCL Annual Conference 2019
David Chaplin picks out what he thinks was the central theme from last week’s sprawling, enthralling SCL Annual Conference…
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Tech Law for Everyone
Caroline, Gould, SCL CEO, looks forward to this year’s ground-breaking Annual Lecture…
Orders to remove or block social media content can have worldwide reach, CJEU rules
CJEU rules, in Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook, that EU law does not prevent Facebook from being ordered to remove identical and, in certain circumstances, equivalent comments previously declared to be illegal nor does it prevent such orders applying worldwide….
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From the SCL Editor: Education, education, education – Friday 27 September 2019
One of the great things about the SCL is that we are an educational charity. Obviously education can encompass an extraordinarily wide range of activities. It can mean the dissemination of technical information for the expert, as represented by the (hopefully) informative news and analysis in Computers & Law and on scl.org, or organising our…
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In Other News: This week’s techlaw news round-up
Europol on spear phishing, caller line ID consultation, online gambling report and more in this week’s round-up of techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site…
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