UK government announces new health data platform
Data platform aims to aid decision making while protecting personal data.
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A team from Arthur Cox take a look at Legal Statement from an Irish perspective and recommend that the Irish authorities could use it as a starting point for their own initiatives.
Data platform aims to aid decision making while protecting personal data.
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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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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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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.
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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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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
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Online Harms and Disinformation call for evidence, Scottish AI and online advertising consultations extension extended, Ofcom statement on regulation during COVID-19 are some of the developments in this week’s round-up of techlaw news from the past week.
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Extent of cyber security threats has not diminished
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Kuan Hon highlights how the forthcoming ‘platform to business’ regulation could have an unexpected impact on cloud and hosting providers
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Discussion paper on a central bank digital currency seeks views on stability, money laundering and data protection
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The UK government welcomes the committee’s recommendations.
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Don't sit home alone, join SCL members online every Wednesday at 3pm
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Security guidance on homeworking, EDPB statement on data processing, electoral law proposals, mobile airwaves auction and the Circular Economy are some of the developments in this week’s round-up of techlaw news from the past week.
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Laurence Eastham, freelance editor, legal writer and former Editor of Computers & Law, shares his wit, words and wisdom on the topic of homeworking
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