The Chancellor has issued his Autumn Statement, including the following announcements of interest to tech lawyers. The government is exploring the use of cutting-edge technologies, including quantum, in the public sector. The National Quantum Computing Centre is supporting government and industry to explore how quantum computing could be applied and the government has launched a…
UK law Data Protection and Digital Information Bill reintroduced to House of Commons The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill received its “first” and “second” readings in the House of Commons on 8 November 2023. The Public Bill Committee completed its work and reported the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill with amendments…
UK law Data Protection and Digital Information Bill reintroduced to House of Commons The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill received its “first” and “second” readings in the House of Commons on 8 November 2023. The Public Bill Committee completed its work and reported the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill with amendments…
The team at Lewis Silkin round off our series of Predictions for the year with a set of 20 predictions for 2020 touching on folding phones, 5G, AI in sports, 3D bio-printing and more….
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Nick Watson forsees that lawtech can improve the tech lawyer’s quality of life…
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Cloud services report concludes that there do not appear to be immediate financial stability risks arising from the use of cloud services by financial institutions….
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In our first contribution to our Predictions and Reflections for the year Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, reflects on her year in open source software, where it has come from and why it matters for the future….
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BEREC issues four consultations relating to telecoms and internet BEREC has issued four new consultations. The first relates to its updated net neutrality guidelines and ends on 28 November 2019. Further, BEREC is consulting on its project on identifying business requirements for the successful deployment of 5G in Europe, which also ends on 28 November…
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David Chaplin picks out what he thinks was the central theme from last week’s sprawling, enthralling SCL Annual Conference…
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Allan Murray summarises the key learning outcomes from the SCL Masterclass on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Disputes held in London on 24 September 2019…