After a troubled passage through parliament, the Data (Use and Access) Bill received Royal Assent on 19 June and is now the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025. It introduces amendments to the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/2426) (PECR). The Act…
Read More… from Data (Use and Access) Bill receives Royal Assent
UK law Investigatory Powers Act 2016 codes of practice published Various codes of practice under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 have been published. The codes of practice set out processes and safeguards for several investigatory powers. CMA consults on releasing Google from Privacy Sandbox commitments The Competition and Markets Authority is consulting on releasing Google…
In recent years, a significant aspect of the Law Commission’s work has focused on emerging technologies, including smart legal contracts, electronic trade documents, decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) and digital assets such as crypto tokens. These developments often rely on distributed ledger technology (DLT). It is now consulting on proposals for law reform. It focuses primarily…
The CJEU has recently ruled in the case HUK-COBURG Haftpflicht-Unterstützungs-Kasse Case C-697/23 that the rules on comparative advertising in the Misleading and Comparative Advertising Directive (2006/114/EC) do not encompass an online comparison service that does not sell the goods or services it compares and, therefore, does not compete with them. The Directive sets out the…
The IAB has a mechanism called the TCF (Transparency and Consent Framework) to manage cookie and other tracking consents. Users’ preferences are encoded and stored in a string composed of a combination of letters and characters referred to as the Transparency and Consent String (TC String), which is shared with personal data brokers and advertising…
Read More… from Belgian Market Court confirms limited role of IAB Europe in the TCF
Lee Gluyas, Charlotte Sanderson and Stephanie Woods, from CMS, summarise the current thinking round tech disputes aired at the recent SCL Technology Disputes Masterclass How are technology disputes currently being resolved? Are traditional methods of dispute resolution suitable for resolving technology disputes? To what extent should new forms of dispute resolution be adopted to resolve…
Read More… from The Resolution of Technology Disputes: Present trends and future predictions
UK law UK government issues call for views on enterprise connected device security The government is asking for views on the security of enterprise connected devices. It is a priority for the government to ensure all new and existing technologies are safely developed and deployed across the UK. “Enterprise connected device (or IOT devices) are…
UK law Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill passes to House of Commons The Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill has completed its passage through the House of Lords and had its first reading in the House of Commons on 12 May 2025. It was referred to a second reading committee, who will debate the Bill and…
During its latest plenary, the European Data Protection Board adopted an opinion on the European Commission’s proposal to extend the validity of the UK adequacy decisions under the GDPR and the Law Enforcement Directive (LED). It also adopted an opinion on the European Commission’s draft adequacy decision under the GDPR concerning the European Patent Organisation…
Read More… from EDPB holds recent plenary including opinion on UK adequacy decision
The UK government has issued a voluntary Software Security Code of Practice which has been developed to improve the security and resilience of software that organisations and businesses rely on. It aims to support software vendors and their customers in reducing the likelihood and impact of software supply chain attacks and other software resilience incidents….
Read More… from UK government issues Software Security Code of Practice