Rachel Lidgate and Charlie Morgan offer an in-depth look at smart contracts and the teasing challenges which they display…
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If Wordsworth was alive, he would no doubt have left Westminster Bridge and attended the SCL Conference. But, in his unavoidable absence, his muse descended on Holly Pearsall and she gave her flash talk at the Conference in verse. Here is her much discussed, and widely praised, poem in full. It needs to be read aloud to get full value….
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Gerald Brent reports on a meeting of the SCL KM Group on 11 September 2018…
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Peter Leonard asks ‘who’s in charge here?’ and whether we are equipped to stay in charge…
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Will Robertson and Elliott Prentiss look at two areas that throw up particular issues under the GDPR…
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Neil Brown draws lessons from a recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning pre-loaded SIM cards…
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The European Court of Human Rights has given judgment in a case brought to challenge elements of surveillance applying under the RIPA 2000. Although technically finding against the UK, it does not appear to materially affect the current surveillance regime…
The Government has issued guidance on ‘the actions UK organisations should take to enable the continued flow of personal data between the UK and the EU in the unlikely event that the UK leaves the EU in March 2019 with no agreement in place.’…
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The European Commission has published proposals for new legislation ‘to get terrorist content off the web, making sure that the same obligations are imposed in a uniform manner across the whole Union’….
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Laurence Eastham on two disparate topics that collided in his time-line this week and made a connection that goes beyond the mere chronological….