CJEU rules, in Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook, that EU law does not prevent Facebook from being ordered to remove identical and, in certain circumstances, equivalent comments previously declared to be illegal nor does it prevent such orders applying worldwide….
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One of the great things about the SCL is that we are an educational charity. Obviously education can encompass an extraordinarily wide range of activities. It can mean the dissemination of technical information for the expert, as represented by the (hopefully) informative news and analysis in Computers & Law and on scl.org, or organising our…
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Europol on spear phishing, caller line ID consultation, online gambling report and more in this week’s round-up of techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site…
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Simon Deane-Johns summarises some key takeaways from the recent SCL Ireland event on AI held on 17th September…
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Professor Chris Marsden and Dr Rob Nicholls suggest ways to prevent a winner takes all situation among social media platforms gathering data to power AI…
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The High Court has granted Nintendo an injunction requiring that five ISPs block or impede access to four websites selling devices that circumvented technological protection of Nintendo devices…
The House of Commons DCMS Select Committee has issued its report on immersive and addictive technologies in which it calls for regulation for video game “loot boxes”….
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The UK government has issued its response to the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee report on the Online Harms White Paper….
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Caroline Gould urges you to attend this year’s SCL Annual Lecture…
Lori Semaan casts an analytical eye over – and raises some pertinent questions about – the ICO’s recent Adtech Report from the perspective of someone who has been involved in the adtech industry*…
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