Data Protection (Independent Complaint) Bill receives first reading in House of Lords The Data Protection (Independent Complaint) Bill has received its first reading in the House of Lords. It amends the Data Protection Act 2018 to grant representative bodies and organisations power to exercise independent complaint and remedy rights on behalf of data subjects. The…
Advocate General gives opinion that car rental companies do not communicate works to public Advocate General Szpunar has given an opinion in the case of C-753/18 Stim and Sami. The AG considered that car rental companies are not “users” that communicate works to the public under Article 3(1) of the InfoDoc Directive 2001/29/EC and Article…
The code allows for a 12 month transition period once in force and should be considered at the design stage by all providers of online services….
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Christopher Knight summarises a recent CJEU decision on whether use of CCTV cameras in an apartment building was necessary…
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The first Opinion under DP Act 2018, tackling concerns about the use of facial recognition technology, was issued by the UK’s Information Commissioner in October 2019. Aaminah Khan analyses the issues at stake…
Online Harms Reduction Regulator (Report) Bill receives first reading in House of Lords The Online Harms Reduction Regulator (Report) Bill received its first reading in the House of Lords on 14 January. It assigns certain functions to Ofcom in relation to online harms regulation. In particular, Ofcom would prepare and publish a report containing recommendations…
Is the traditional outsourcing agreement, “engineered” for the pre-AI world, suitable in a world in which AI displaces both people and rules-based methods of automation? Zayed Al Jamil looks at the issues….
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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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The consultation ends on 4 March 2020 and the final version will be published later in 2020….
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Opinion opens up debate on how a special regime to enable research should operate in the light of the GDPR…