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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…

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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…

Read More… from CJEU rules that online comparison service does not fall within comparative advertising rules

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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

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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

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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….

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Ofcom has published its final guidance on protecting children under the Online Safety Act 2023.  This follows consultation, including with children. The guidance includes more than 40 measures for tech firms to meet their duties under the Online Safety Act. These will apply to sites and apps used by UK children in areas such as…

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The European Commission has announced that it has decided to close its investigation into Apple’s user choice obligations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). In less good news for Apple, it has also decided that Apple’s steering rules breach the DMA and fined it 500 million euros.  It has also made a preliminary ruling regarding…

Read More… from European Commission issues Apple with fine under Digital Markets Act