The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in Google LLC v Bundesrepublik Deutschland Case C-193/18 that web-based email is not an electronic communications service….
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In our regular column explaining the terminology behind the tech, the SCL’s resident geek, Simon Forrester, recounts the technological history leading to 5G….
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The General Data Protection Regulation has been in force for a year. But data protection law doesn’t stand still. One year on, Martin Sloan rounds-up some of the key, ongoing issues….
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Charlie Morgan and Rebecca Read give a brief overview of what artificial intelligence (AI) means, assess how process automation and machine learning is having an impact on dispute resolution and what things might look like in future….
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ASA issues annual reportThe Advertising Standards Authority and the Committee on Advertising Practice have published their annual report for 2018. In the report they highlight the work that they have been carrying out in relation to online advertising in particular. CAP is focusing on age-restricted advertisements for alcohol and food and drink high in fat, sugar…
The winner of the inaugural SCL Sir Henry Brooke Student Essay Prize 2019 Winner, Robert Lewis, takes a wide-ranging look at the disparities between the laws regulating social networks and those regulating its users and the traditional media…
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Darren Grayson Chng, our Singapore Correspondent, reports on the background and passage of Singapore’s controversial fake news law which has extra territorial consequences…
Neil Brown, of decoded.legal, picks out some key practice points from the recent judgment in Rudd v Bridle which dealt with SARs and the use of the litigation privilege exemption…
The DCMS is consulting on regulatory proposals about consumer Internet of Things security to better protect consumers’ privacy and online security….
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European Data Protection Board adopts guidelines on application of Article 6(1)(b) GDPR The European Data Protection Board has adopted guidelines on the scope and application of Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 in relation to information society services. In its guidelines, the EDPB makes general observations regarding data protection principles and the…