Anna Morfey and Amandine Gueret consider recent developments which offer a first glimpse into growing challenges for EU competition law…
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Peter Leonard asks ‘who’s in charge here?’ and whether we are equipped to stay in charge…
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Will Robertson and Elliott Prentiss look at two areas that throw up particular issues under the GDPR…
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The European Court of Human Rights has given judgment in a case brought to challenge elements of surveillance applying under the RIPA 2000. Although technically finding against the UK, it does not appear to materially affect the current surveillance regime…
Lynn Richmond looks at the way we apportion blame in law and the need for a reconsideration of the relevant law in the light of the development of AI. She goes on to bring the issue close to home by considering the liability of lawyers in the future AI-influenced practice of law…
In a first interim report in its Disinformation and ‘fake news’ inquiry, the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has issued a series of stark warnings and made a series of recommendations….
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The EU Commission has fined four consumer electronics manufacturers, including Asus, for fixing online resale prices…
There is a widely held view that blockchain and the GDPR may be incompatible. Ben Gibson suggests an approach that would increase privacy protection by virtue of the use of zero-knowledge protocols in the context of distributed ledger technology…
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This entry to the SCL Student Essay Prize earned Viraj Ananth the runner-up spot. It is a challenging and original take on the set question, which concerned the relative importance of law and ISP action in enforcement on the Internet….
This is the essay which won the SCL Student Essay Prize for 2018 for Alvin Cheung on the set topic ‘Are state legislation and case law, or Internet Service Provider action, more important to the enforcement of rules on Internet users? Discuss with respect to key internet platforms’ Terms of Service and privacy policies.’…