In Other News: This Week’s Techlaw Round-Up
Cyber Assessment Frameworks update, E-Privacy Regulations Discussion note, No Deal Brexit.eu domain names and more: a round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site…
Litigation & DR
Autonomous vehicles, software and product liability: have the Law Commissions missed an opportunity?
Leah Grolman thinks autonomous vehicles provide the ideal test case for examining the relationship between consumer protection law and software liability and that the Law Commissions have failed to grasp the opportunity to examine the issue….
Introducing Data Trusts: what are they and what are the legal considerations?
Emily Barwell considers the legal considerations when setting up a data trust and discusses when it may be appropriate to use this new and innovative concept emerging in the data ethics space…
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License Agreements, Audits & Digital Transformation: Some observations on managing the legal risks
Marcin Maruta and Karolina Alama, of Maruta Wachta, provide practical insights into the software licensing audit process and how to manage the associated risks…
Techlaw News Round-Up
Automation and the future of work report published The House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy select committee has published its report on automation and the future of work. It calls on the UK government to issue a UK robot and AI strategy by the end of 2020. The report outlines a series of…
High Court grants Nintendo injunction against ISPs following third party infringements
The High Court has granted Nintendo an injunction requiring that five ISPs block or impede access to four websites selling devices that circumvented technological protection of Nintendo devices…
Interoperability: A solution to regulating AI and social media platforms
Professor Chris Marsden and Dr Rob Nicholls suggest ways to prevent a winner takes all situation among social media platforms gathering data to power AI…
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Techlaw News Round-Up
DCMS calls for views on cybersecurity certificationThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has issued a call for views on the UK government’s proposed approach to cyber security certification following the UK’s departure from the EU. The EU Cyber Security Act entered into force on 27 June 2019. It established a cyber security certification framework…
UK government issues response to select committee report on online harms
The UK government has issued its response to the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee report on the Online Harms White Paper….
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Legal Education Foundation reports a lack of progress on the digital delivery of legal services
The LEF has issued a report on digital delivery of legal services to people on low incomes…