In Other News: This week’s Techlaw News Round-Up

Machine learning in financial services, broadband pricing, new BEREC consultations and more in this week's round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site

Law Commissions publish consultation on regulation of highly automated road passenger services (HARPS)

The Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission have published their second consultation paper on the regulation of highly automated road passenger services. They provisionally propose a single licensing system for all operators

FCA consults on fees and registration proposals for cryptoasset business

Consultation paper issued in advance of new role as money laundering and counter terrorist supervisor for cryptoasset business in operation from January 2020

ICO issues blog post on enabling access, erasure, and rectification rights in AI systems

The ICO has issued a blog post on access, erasure, and rectification rights in AI systems.

Age verification for online pornography dropped

The UK government has dropped its plans to introduce an age verification system for online pornography.

Lords Science and Technology Committee: more work needed to ensure drone users are not unfairly penalised

The House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology has published its report on commercial and recreational drone use in the UK.

Queen’s Speech: legislation of interest to technology lawyers

New proposed legislation covers online harms, drones, broadband as well as new initiatives in the space technology sector.

SEC halts Telegram’s alleged $1.7 billion unregistered digital token offering

Latest move comes as Facebook’s Libra project loses more potential partners

In Other News: This week's Techlaw Round-Up

A round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site

Oxford Internet Institute suggests need for collective actions to help plug gaps in data rights & political campaigning law

Report examines the scope of the law concerning political campaigning and the current regulatory gaps in this area.

EVENT REPORT: The New Technology Lawyer – The SCL Annual Conference 2019

David Chaplin picks out what he thinks was the central theme from last week’s sprawling, enthralling SCL Annual Conference

The internet: broken or about to be broken?

Graham Smith’s Keynote Speech to the SCL Annual Conference 2019 in which he argues that proposed cures for a broken internet risk harming the patient.

In Other News: This Week’s Techlaw Round-Up

Cyber Assessment Frameworks update, E-Privacy Regulations Discussion note, No Deal Brexit.eu domain names and more: a round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site

Key Takeaways from the SCL Masterclass on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Disputes - Tuesday 24 September 2019, London

Allan Murray summarises the key learning outcomes from the SCL Masterclass on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Disputes held in London on 24 September 2019

Orders to remove or block social media content can have worldwide reach, CJEU rules

CJEU rules, in Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook, that EU law does not prevent Facebook from being ordered to remove identical and, in certain circumstances, equivalent comments previously declared to be illegal nor does it prevent such orders applying worldwide.

Court of Appeal allows mass data protection claim against Google to proceed

The Court of Appeal has allowed, on a unanimous basis, an appeal in Lloyd v Google LLC [2019] EWCA Civ 1599 which may open the way for mass data protection claims.

SCL Junior Lawyers Group Event: Making a Career of IT - Tuesday 22 October 2019, London

SCL Event: Agile Methodologies: A Different Contractual Paradigm - Thursday 7 November 2019, London

SCL World Café: Building a Tech Law Curriculum - Friday 15 November 2019, London

Establishing a tech law curriculum that addresses the current and future needs of our rapidly-changing sector

SCL Outsourcing Group Half-Day Masterclass - Wednesday 20 November 2019, London

SCL Sir Brian Neill Lecture: “Disability & Innovation: The Universal Benefits of Inclusive Design” to be given by Haben Girma – Tuesday 26 November 2019, London

Haben Girma is the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School

SCL Irish Group event: “Exploring Bias in AI” (Breakfast meeting) - Thursday 28 November 2019, Dublin

SCL Student Tech Law Challenge 2020 - Friday 21 February 2020, London

SCL "Tech Law for Good" Awards 2020 - Thursday 12 March 2020

Celebrating the positive difference to society made by tech law over the past 12 months.