DCMS publishes consultation response on consumer IoT security: legislation in the pipeline
UK government says more research is needed to refine next steps but intends to introduce legislation….
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Advocate General gives opinion that car rental companies do not communicate works to public Advocate General Szpunar has given an opinion in the case of C-753/18 Stim and Sami. The AG considered that car rental companies are not “users” that communicate works to the public under Article 3(1) of the InfoDoc Directive 2001/29/EC and Article…
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Online Harms Reduction Regulator (Report) Bill receives first reading in House of Lords The Online Harms Reduction Regulator (Report) Bill received its first reading in the House of Lords on 14 January. It assigns certain functions to Ofcom in relation to online harms regulation. In particular, Ofcom would prepare and publish a report containing recommendations…
EVENT REPORT: Exploring bias in AI
Kate McKenna presents some key take-aways from the recent SCL Ireland event that took place on 28 November 2019….
Resolutions 2020: Introducing the SCL Trainees Group
Bertilla Chow introduces the SCL’s new Trainees group and sets out what they seek to achieve next year…
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Cybersecurity for Lawyers: 4 – Your email
In the last of our current run of “Back to Basics” articles, adapted from the Cybersecurity for Lawyers wiki he has recently started, Neil Brown explains how to secure your email communication secure….
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European Commission publishes EU Cybersecurity Taxonomy The European Commission has recently published a revision of its cybersecurity taxonomy guidelines. The taxonomy aims to provide a clear definition of the cybersecurity context, its domains of application, research and knowledge. It proposes a high level set of definitions and categorisation domains so that they can be used…
Cybersecurity for Lawyers: 3 – Your website
In another of our series of “Back to Basics” articles, adapted from the Cybersecurity for Lawyers wiki he has recently started, Neil Brown explains how to ensure your website is secure….
Farming: Computer law’s new (rather old) frontier
Dr Fernando Barrio reveals a crop of IP, data and privacy issues associated with new techniques in agricultural production….
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Pseudonymisation best practices and techniques: ENISA publishes recommendations
Report explores the basic concepts of pseudonymisation, as well as technical solutions that can support implementation in practice….
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