The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT) is a part of LawtechUK, an industry-led group tasked with supporting the digital transformation of the UK legal services sector and with positioning English law as a law of choice for new technologies. The UKJT brings together the judiciary, the Law Commission of England and Wales, regulators and technology and…
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The High Court has ruled in favour of the defendant, Pinewood Technologies in Pinewood Technologies Asia Pacific Ltd v Pinewood Technologies plc [2023] EWHC 2506 (TCC). Pinewood is a UK-registered company and a subsidiary of Pendragon plc, an automotive retailed. It develops and supplies a dealer management system for the automotive industry. Typically, Pinewood Technologies…
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The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) have issued a Joint Opinion on the proposed Regulation on the digital euro as a central bank digital currency. The digital euro aims to facilitate electronic payments by individuals, both online and offline, as an additional means of payment alongside cash. The…
Clearview provides a service that allows customers, including the police, to upload an image of a person to the company’s app, which is then checked for a match against all the images in the database. The app then provides a list of images that have similar characteristics with the photo provided by the customer, with…
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The Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee has published its report NFTs and the Blockchain: the risks to sport and culture. It notes that while sales of NFTs peaked last year and that they may not reach the same level of popularity again, concerns remain over how traditional regulatory regimes have been exposed by the…
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UK law CMA clears revised deal for Microsoft to buy Activision The new deal for Microsoft to buy Activision without cloud gaming rights has been cleared after the CMA concluded it would preserve competitive prices and better services. In August this year Microsoft made a concession that would see Ubisoft, instead of Microsoft, buy Activision’s…
The Court of Appeal has issued its ruling in Ben Peter Delo, R (on the application of) v The Information Commissioner [2023] EWCA Civ 1141. The case concerned a long-running court battle over a subject access request complaint. The Court of Appeal upheld an earlier High Court decision by Mr Justice Mostyn to dismiss a…
UK law ASA publishes final report on information gathered during IPP Pilot The ASA has published a final report on its Intermediary and Platform Principles (IPP) Pilot. The Pilot was devised to help explore whether and, if so, how the UK advertising self-regulatory system might evolve to bring greater transparency and broader accountability to the…
The SCL AI Group are delighted to announce the launch of their Artificial Intelligence Contractual Clauses document. The development and use of AI will increase significantly over the next few years. AI systems will therefore increasingly become the subject matter of transactional contracts. AI technologies create new and unique risks which will need to be…
Following the introduction of new rules by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the ASA will no longer regulate technical claims in ads for cryptoassets in non-broadcast media. As of 8 October 2023 the FCA is responsible for the regulation of ads for ‘qualifying cryptoassets’ – cryptoassets that are transferable and fungible, including cryptocurrencies and utility…
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