Google Fined by EU Commission
The EU Commission has fined Google €2.42 billion for abusing its dominance as a search engine by giving an illegal advantage to its own comparison shopping service…
Society & Justice
Autonomous Vehicles: An Ethical and Legal Approach
This is the essay from Lottie Michael which won the SCL Essay Prize for 2017…
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The SCL Annual Conference 2017: A Sketch
David Chaplin, the SCL’s Development Editor, offers some brief observations on last week’s outstanding Annual Conference…
RegTech: When Regulation Meets Technology
What is RegTech? Lorraine Chimbga and Ryan Barnes give the answers and explain why it is having an impact on the financial industry and how it might have an impact on lawyers too….
Reasonable Skill and Care in the Age of Machine Learning: Some Preliminary Thoughts
In an appetiser for one of the sessions at the forthcoming SCL Conference – on AI and machine learning – Matthew Lavy shares some thoughts on machine learning and liability…
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Book Review: We Know All About You
Lorraine Chimbga reviews We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America
by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (OUP, 304 pp, £18.99) ISBN: 9780198749660…
There’s something very familiar about all this…
Ben Hughes explores the opportunities presented by the deployment of current and impending disruptive technologies in the retail and consumer sector….
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Editorial
This issue is dominated by articles about the edgier tech law topics, with Neil Brown’s piece on Sextech being the big online hit of the last few months (no surprise there, but I suspect we may have had some disappointed online visitors) and delebs and algorithms causing plenty of interest too. But even though those…
Pihl v Sweden: Liability for Comments
Dirk Voorhoof recounts the facts and judgment in Pihl and comments on the findings of the European Court of Human Rights and the potential for restrictions on internet freedoms…
Algorithms and the Rule of Law
Rónán Kennedy explores fundamental issues surrounding the use of algorithms…