SCL Mentoring - a call to your better self!

Mark Lumley on why becoming an SCL Mentor would be good for the Society, good for society and good for you.

Event Report: Smarter Documents 2 – the contract automation journey continues

Gerald Brent reports on a meeting of the SCL KM Group on 11 September 2018

AI Challenges and the Law: Being smart enough to boss around smart devices and AI

Peter Leonard asks ‘who’s in charge here?’ and whether we are equipped to stay in charge

Resale Price Maintenance and Artificial Intelligence

Anna Morfey and Amandine Gueret consider recent developments which offer a first glimpse into growing challenges for EU competition law

"Lawyering in a Digital Age: Equipping students for the technologically advancing practice of law" - University of Cumbria Conference Call for Speakers

Invitation to contribute to the symposium with either a short presentation or by leading a practical workshop

SIMs: Suitable Information Mollifies Subscribers?

Neil Brown draws lessons from a recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning pre-loaded SIM cards

Profiling and Automated Decision-making under the GDPR

Will Robertson and Elliott Prentiss look at two areas that throw up particular issues under the GDPR

Government Guidance on Data Protection in a ‘No-deal’ Scenario

The Government has issued guidance on ‘the actions UK organisations should take to enable the continued flow of personal data between the UK and the EU in the unlikely event that the UK leaves the EU in March 2019 with no agreement in place.’

CJEU Judgment on Inertia Selling on Pre-loaded SIM Cards

According to the Court of Justice of the European Union, the sale of SIM cards on which services that can incur fees have been pre-loaded and pre-activated constitutes an aggressive unfair commercial practice when the consumers are not informed of that fact in advance.

Surveillance and Bulk Data Retention Judgment from the European Court of Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights has given judgment in a case brought to challenge elements of surveillance applying under the RIPA 2000. Although technically finding against the UK, it does not appear to materially affect the current surveillance regime

EU Commission Proposal on Online Terrorist Content

The European Commission has published proposals for new legislation ‘to get terrorist content off the web, making sure that the same obligations are imposed in a uniform manner across the whole Union’.

The Future of Outsourcing

In the first article to be published online from our Tech Law Masterclass, which will appear in the October/November issue of Computers & Law, Kit Burden looks at developments in outsourcing and what they might mean for tech lawyers

BA Breach and Porn Viewing Age-verification

Laurence Eastham on two disparate topics that collided in his time-line this week and made a connection that goes beyond the mere chronological.

Scoping Exercise

Mark O’Conor reflects on SCL’s activities and looks forward to the forthcoming SCL Conference

GDPR – an Unqualified Right to Rectification?

Jon Baines asks whether the FCA – or any data controller – can any longer argue that it’s too expensive to have to rectify inaccurate personal data

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Neil Brown examines new rules on caller line identification

SCL Annual Conference 2018 - Thursday 27 September 2018, London

SCL Outsourcing Half-Day Masterclass - Monday 8 October 2018, London

SCL Outsourcing Group event

University of Strathclyde Law School: 4th Annual Postgraduate Law Conference - Friday 26 October 2018, Glasgow

SCL Privacy and DP Group event: "The Future of Technology and Privacy" - Tuesday 20 November 2018, London

SCL and NCSC event: "Incident Management at the National Cyber Security Centre" - Wednesday 21 November 2018, London

Guidance for general counsel and private sector lawyers dealing with incident response

First International Forum on Online Courts: “The cutting edge of digital reform” - Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 December 2018, London

Call for expressions of interest

*Rescheduled Date* SCL and FAST Event: The £54m question, “Indirect access to software products: Where are we now with software licensing after SAP v Diageo?” Debate and Discussion - Wednesday 9 January 2019, London

This event has been rescheduled and was originally due to take place on Tuesday 16 October 2018.

SCL Annual IT Contracts Update - Thursday 24 January 2019, Bristol

SCL Annual Data Protection Update 2019 - Thursday 31 January 2019, London

Essential training from only £90 + VAT

SCL Annual IT Contracts Update - Monday 4 February 2019, London

SCL Annual IT Contracts Update - Thursday 7 February 2019, Leeds

Save the Date: SCL Student Tech Law Challenge 2019 - Friday 22 February 2019, London