Jack Barradell-Johns walks through a revealing example showing how AI integration can cause vulnerabilities in commonly used tools Introduction SharePoint is a Microsoft platform that enables collaborative working and information sharing. This is done with team sites. They work like regular intranet pages with graphics and text, but they also give you places to store…
An infographic compiled by Fiona Phillips outlining the proposals for dealing with ransomware attacks following the consultation earlier this year….
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Fiona Phillips, guest editor of our Cybersecurity special issue and chair of the SCL Cybersecurity Group, stresses the importance of cyber for lawyers and for wider society As Chair of the Cybersecurity and Law Committee for the Society for Computers and Law, I am honoured to introduce this special edition devoted to one of the…
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The Irish parliamentary Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence has published its First Interim Report. The Committee was formed to examine and make recommendations on Ireland’s approach to the development, deployment, regulation, and ethical considerations of AI, and on the means of ensuring that the approach supports economic growth, innovation, public trust, and societal benefit while…
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The ICO has announced that it will be scrutinising how popular games played by childrenprotect online privacy. 90% of UK children play games on digital devices and the ICO will belaunching a monitoring programme targeting 10 popular mobile games. The review willassess games’ compliance with default privacy settings, their geolocation controls and theirtargeted advertising practices….
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UK law ICO updates on action improving cookie compliance across top UK websites The ICO has provided an update on its work to tackle cookie compliance, which it says has brought the vast majority of the UK’s most used websites into compliance with rules on the use of advertising cookies. The ICO focused on three…
During its latest plenary meeting, the EDPB adopted recommendations on the legal basis for requiring the creation of user accounts on e-commerce websites. In addition, the Board had a preliminary discussion on the Digital Omnibus proposal and appointed the new EDPB Deputy Chair. Recommendation on creating user accounts on websites The Board says that Internet…
In the first compliance decision under the Digital Services Act (DSA)., the European Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the DSA. The breaches include the deceptive design of its “blue tick”, the lack of transparency of its advertising repository, and the failure to provide access…
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The European Commission is investigating if Google has breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers, as well as content uploaded on the online video-sharing platform YouTube, for AI purposes. In particular, the investigation will assess if Google is distorting competition by imposing unfair terms and conditions on publishers and content creators,…
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The European Commission has issued its 2030 Consumer Agenda which includes some digital and online initiatives. It focuses on four key priority areas. Digital fairness and consumer protection online In 2026, the Commission will propose a Digital Fairness Act to strengthen the protection of consumers in the digital environment. This will cover practices such as dark…
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