David Barker thinks the Government’s initial consultation response to the Online Harms White Paper shows progress but still needs some work…
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DCMS Committee launches inquiry into the future of public service broadcasting The House of Commons DCMS Select Committee has launched an inquiry to consider the future of public service broadcasting in a digital age. How public service broadcasting is funded, the content offered and how it is regulated will be examined against alternative subscription, streaming…
A summary of the first in our online series of special sessions for SCL members held on Wednesday 25 March 2020…
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Jonathan Smart and Hadley Zielonka look at some of the ways in which e-commerce sites are misleading consumers and what regulators are doing to stop them….
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An employer is not vicariously liable where the employee was not engaged in furthering his employer’s business, but rather was pursuing a personal vendetta….
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Data platform aims to aid decision making while protecting personal data….
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In the first of a regular column on cybersecurity matters, Peter Yapp reviews the history of the Computer Misuse Act and ponders why it is still in force…
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Global initiative to help public court services cope with coronavirus…
A team from Akin Gump pick out the key themes and questions in the recently published, wide-ranging White Paper from the European Commission….
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Peebles Media is the first reported case from a court in the UK concerning the scope of an employee’s contractual duties of care in relation to ‘phishing’ emails. Pauline McBride looks at the increasingly sophisticated nature of phishing attacks, the arguments before the court and what organisations might do to protect themselves from similar attacks….