Court of Appeal grants leave to appeal in facial recognition case The Court of Appeal has granted leave to appeal the High Court decision in R (on the application of Bridges) v Chief Constable of South Wales Police (Information Commissioner and another intervening) [2019] EWHC 2341, relating to South Wales’ police use of facial recognition…
David Chaplin, Editor of Computers & Law, was privileged to able to join in at the World Café that aimed to kick start new ideas for the law curriculum in the digital age. As he explains it was an impossible event to summarise….
A Legal Statement on the status of cryptoassets and smart contracts has been launched by the Chancellor of the High Court…
Directive supplements the VAT e-commerce directive and is due to come into force in 2021…
The High Court has ruled that 77m Ltd’s use of address data infringed the database rights of Ordnance Survey Ltd…
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The ICO is consulting on an application to be given investigative and other powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to close potential gap between civil and criminal fines…
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ASA upholds complaint about targeting of online advertising The ASA has upheld a complaint this week relating to an advertisement which appeared on a children’s TV channel for Popjam, a social media site for 7-12 year olds. The complainant was concerned that the advertisement’s encouragement to “get likes and followers to level up” could be…
In the first of a series of “Back to Basics” articles, adapted from the Cybersecurity for Lawyers wiki he has recently started, Neil Brown sets out some of the first steps that law firms should consider when putting in place their own cybersecurity policy touching on why it is important, how to assess the threats and documenting policies….
Dan Tench and Leah Grolman review the 3rd edition of this practical book…
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The Directive aims to modernise consumer law, especially in relation to online trade…
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