CMA announces that Amazon’s Deliveroo investment raises competition concerns The Competition and Markets Authority has said that Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo raises serious competition concerns for UK customers that may require an in-depth investigation by the CMA. While Amazon would not take full control of Deliveroo’s business, the CMA has assessed how the deal could…
Consultation ends on 14 February 2020 and aims to define questions facing IP policy makers on AI….
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Marta Dunphy-Moriel presents Kemp Little’s Top 5 Predictions for 2020 touching on privacy class actions, ad tech scrutiny, facial recognition and autonomous vehicles….
European Commission publishes EU Cybersecurity Taxonomy The European Commission has recently published a revision of its cybersecurity taxonomy guidelines. The taxonomy aims to provide a clear definition of the cybersecurity context, its domains of application, research and knowledge. It proposes a high level set of definitions and categorisation domains so that they can be used…
Kicking off our Predictions, Reflections and Resolutions in earnest, Anna Cook and Vik Khurana of Bristows reflect on how technology has featured in society in 2019, touching on announcements by tech companies, investigations by regulators and pitches by political leaders….
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A summary of the key learning outcomes from the recent SCL Outsourcing Masterclass from Rebecca Andersen, Max Harris, Martha Crnkovic, Neelum Dass, and Ralph Giles….
Dr Fernando Barrio reveals a crop of IP, data and privacy issues associated with new techniques in agricultural production….
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Update on proposed E-privacy Regulation The Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council of the EU recently discussed the draft E-Privacy Regulation. The draft regulation is subject to concerns about issues such as the role of the European Data Protection Board, preventing child abuse imagery, protecting terminal equipment information, data retention and interaction with new technologies. These…
Darren Grayson Chng, our Singapore corespondent, reports on the first uses of the Singapore’s Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA)….
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Report looks at liability for AI and other digital technologies….
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