Bojana Bellamy and Markus Heyder consider the role that the concept of enhanced accountability can play in creating a sustainable data-driven economy and information society. Bojana is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference on the topic ‘Data Protection – Compliance in a Heavily Regulated Environment’…
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Joachim Schwerin confronts blockchain (‘the most disruptive part of the FinTech universe’), touches on crowdfunding and gives his personal views on the way to deal with such disruption from a policy perspective. Joachim is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference on the topic FinTech – IT and Financial Services Regulation….
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With digital disruption high on the agenda for organisations working in the financial services industry, Kenny Robertson looks at the importance of APIs and what the adoption of progressive API strategies might bring with particular reference to his own employer, RBS. Kenny Robertson is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference on the topic FinTech – IT and Financial Services Regulation….
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Indra Spiecker genannt Doehmann the effects ‘Industry 4.0’ will have on the legal system and the ‘contrat social’ of our society, as exemplified by the effects on health care. Indra Spiecker is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference on the topic ‚ Industry 4.0: Legal Impacts of Robotics including Driverless Cars…
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Tim Turner offers his forthright view that the requirement for clear and unambiguous consent under the GDPR is clear and unambiguous, and raises concerns about the advice given to some in the charity sector that muddies this clarity….
James Murray reports on a recent High Court judgment that allowed a subject access request even though it was alleged to be aimed at seeking a litigation advantage….
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The Article 29 Working Party has given its verdict on the Privacy Shield that is designed to replace Safe Harbour. In essence, the Working Party has made encouraging noises and called for further improvements….
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Blockchain Among the updates, case analysis, further focus on GDPR and valuable insights on outsourcing, the main feature of this issue is the articles on blockchain. The focus on blockchain arises from a combination of (i) a recognition on my part that blockchain was a hot topic, with many people I respected emphasising, and clearly…
The EU Commission has launched a public consultation on the evaluation and review of the ePrivacy Directive…
The Advocate General’s Opinion has been published in a case referred to the CJEU questioning the liability of a person posting a link to a website that hosts copyright infringing material…
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