In a guest post, Simon Deane-Johns, who was the Conference Chair, offers his thoughts on some of the themes covered at the SCL Technology Law Futures Conference held in the summer…
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Simon Deane-Johns reviews the final version of the new Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the internal market. This article supersedes his article published online in June 2015….
Laurence Eastham reports on the Lecture from Dame Wendy Hall under the title ‘The Evolution of the Web: From the Wild West to a Brave New World?’…
Chris Bridges investigates the EU Commission’s consultation on geo-blocking, which some (including the Commission) see as an obvious threat to the EU’s digital single market. Chris sees it as a lot more complicated than that….
Caroline Thompson asks ‘Can Google just pick and choose which laws apply online?’…
The Court of Justice of the European Union has given judgment in a case concerning the reach of data protection supervisors, ruling that one Member State’s supervisor can have jurisdiction on organisations mainly established beyond the border of that State. Lorna Woods reports on the case and explains its implications…
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Hans Allnutt, David Bear, and Clare Hughes-Williams survey the increasing exposure of insurers in a burgeoning area for insurers that has seen a recent explosive twist that they may not have taken into account…
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The President of the CNIL has rejected Google’s informal appeal against the formal notice requesting it to apply delisting on all of the search engine’s domain names, including google.com. Are the suggestions that the CNIL is seeking world domination justified?…
The latest ICO enforcement notice, arising under the ‘right to be forgotten’, seems like a futile gesture….
Roger Bickerstaff offers a welcome and has some suggestions for self-improvement…