Influencing Technology-related Legislation: the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 and Legal Professional Privilege

Carolina Gasparoli and Tim Hill recount the history of the battle to gain greater protection for LPP

CJEU Declares EU/Canada PNR Agreement Invalid

The Court of Justice of the European Union has declared that the agreement envisaged between the EU and Canada on the transfer of Passenger Name Record data may not be concluded in its current form, stating that several provisions of the draft agreement do not accord with fundamental rights recognised by the EU

Online Courts Hackathon: the IT Group Experience

Aaron Pickett looks back on the time when the IT Group developers took on the 24-hour Online Courts Hackathon challenge

Collaboration at the Online Courts Hackathon: We Need to Talk about CoLin

A joint team from Wavelength Law and the Law Society of England and Wales won the Online Courts Hackathon on 2 July with their slick ‘pathfinder’ technology and voice interaction with COLIN (the Courts OnLINe help agent). Laurence Eastham asked Drew Winlaw and Ben Gardner from Wavelength and Sophia Adams Bhatti from the Law Society for their thoughts about the experience, the collaboration and the future uses of the hackathon’s ideas.

Artificial Intelligence: The Real Legal Issues

Based on his presentation at the SCL Conference in June, John C. Buyers takes us on a tour of the AI issues for tech lawyers and points out the hotspots

Netflix and Go: Expanding Access to Online Content Services when Travelling within the EU

In a very timely article, Elizabeth Fitzgerald explains the effect of a new EU Regulation affecting portability of online services

Digital Economy Act Commencement

The DEA implementation is now underway as the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2017 (SI 2017/765) is published.

SCL Event Report: Foundations of IT Law Programme - An Introduction to Regulated Environments

David Berry reports on the latest event in the SCL Foundations of IT Law programme - Module 12 ‘An Introduction to Regulated Environments’, which took place on 11 July 2017 and was hosted by Stephenson Harwood

Establishing Norms for Contract Terms – A Fool's Errand or the Future of Contracting?

Wendy Lawson-Shanks explains why the IACCM is looking at new approaches to contract standards and outlines her view of the future

Fake News: Striking a Balance between Regulation and Responsibility

Ashley Hurst sets out an approach to fake news that shifts the focus away from some of the more strident ‘calls for action’

House of Lords Committee Report on Brexit and Data Protection

The Government should pursue full regulatory equivalence with the EU with respect to data protection in order to ensure unhindered data flows between the UK and EU post-Brexit, offer stability and certainty for businesses and maintain police and security cooperation, says the EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee in its report entitled ‘Brexit: the EU data protection package’.

Webinar: SCL Foundations of IT Law: Module 12 "An Introduction to Regulated Environments"

GDPR: Data Protection Impact Assessments

Olivia Whitcroft takes a careful look at DPIAs in light of the further guidance on the GDPR that has been issued since its finalisation

Global Orders and Google Inc v Equustek Solutions Inc

Dr Paul Lambert summarises an important judgment of the Canadian Supreme Court and comments on its global impact

Jurisdiction: Advocate General Proposes Extension of Jurisdiction for Internet Defamation Claims

Advocate General Bobek considers that a company alleging that its personality rights have been infringed by the publication of information on the internet can take legal action in the Member State where it has its centre of interests for the entirety of the harm claimed

Book Review: Data Localization Laws and Policy

Laurence Eastham reviews this close examination of international transfers from W Kuan Hon (Edward Elgar Publishing, 479 pp, £110/£99, ISBN 978 1 78643 196 7; also available as an ebook).

SCL Better Contracts Initiative: Speedy Dispute Resolution in IT/technology disputes - Tuesday 12 September 2017, London

SCL Conference "Back to basics: the technology" - Tuesday 19 September 2017, London

Putting the ‘tech’ into ‘tech law’'

SCL Outsourcing Group event: “You Know Your Outsourcing Project is Heading for the Rocks When….” - Tuesday 3 October 2017, London