Overview of Singapore’s draft Cybersecurity Bill
Darren Grayson Chng, our Associate Editor for Singapore, summarises the Bill and local reaction to it….
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Privacy & Data Protection
Application of Article 10 of the GDPR to the Financial Services’ Sector in the UK
Simon Brown and Helen Woollett explore and deplore the potential effect of Article 10 on the capacity of organisation concerned with financial services to monitor for fraud and other breaches of law…
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CJEU Declares EU/Canada PNR Agreement Invalid
The Court of Justice of the European Union has declared that the agreement envisaged between the EU and Canada on the transfer of Passenger Name Record data may not be concluded in its current form, stating that several provisions of the draft agreement do not accord with fundamental rights recognised by the EU…
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Influencing Technology-related Legislation: the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 and Legal Professional Privilege
Carolina Gasparoli and Tim Hill recount the history of the battle to gain greater protection for LPP…
Artificial Intelligence: The Real Legal Issues
Based on his presentation at the SCL Conference in June, John C. Buyers takes us on a tour of the AI issues for tech lawyers and points out the hotspots…
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Netflix and Go: Expanding Access to Online Content Services when Travelling within the EU
In a very timely article, Elizabeth Fitzgerald explains the effect of a new EU Regulation affecting portability of online services…
SCL Event Report: Foundations of IT Law Programme – An Introduction to Regulated Environments
David Berry reports on the latest event in the SCL Foundations of IT Law programme – Module 12 ‘An Introduction to Regulated Environments’, which took place on 11 July 2017 and was hosted by Stephenson Harwood…
House of Lords Committee Report on Brexit and Data Protection
The Government should pursue full regulatory equivalence with the EU with respect to data protection in order to ensure unhindered data flows between the UK and EU post-Brexit, offer stability and certainty for businesses and maintain police and security cooperation, says the EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee in its report entitled ‘Brexit: the EU data protection package’….
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Fake News: Striking a Balance between Regulation and Responsibility
Ashley Hurst sets out an approach to fake news that shifts the focus away from some of the more strident ‘calls for action’…
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GDPR: Data Protection Impact Assessments
Olivia Whitcroft takes a careful look at DPIAs in light of the further guidance on the GDPR that has been issued since its finalisation…