Age-verification for online pornography delayed by up to six months
Failure to notify EU to blame…
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The GDPR is not standing still: key developments one year on
The General Data Protection Regulation has been in force for a year. But data protection law doesn’t stand still. One year on, Martin Sloan rounds-up some of the key, ongoing issues….
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The Buivids Debate: why the CJEU decision isn’t wrong and why the GDPR is out of date
In the April issue of Computers and Law, Neil Brown questioned the thinking behind the CJEU decision in Buivids. In this response Matthew Holman comes to their rescue and argues that their thinking was right but suggests we need to look for new ways to regulate individuals in today’s content sharing culture….
AG Opinion in Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook: Facebook may need to delete ‘equivalent’ defamatory comments
The Advocate General rules in case C-18/18 Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook Ireland Limited that Facebook can be required by a court to seek and identify all comments identical to a defamatory comment that has been found to be illegal…
Tackling misinformation and disinformation online: thoughts on the Online Harms White Paper
The text of a speech presented by Ashley Hurst, Chair of the SCL Media Group, to the Westminster Media Forum policy conference on why he thinks the Online Harms White Paper and the duty of care is not the answer to online disinformation and why the way forward should be focused on technology and education…
Do social network providers require (further?) regulation? #1
The winner of the inaugural SCL Sir Henry Brooke Student Essay Prize 2019 Winner, Robert Lewis, takes a wide-ranging look at the disparities between the laws regulating social networks and those regulating its users and the traditional media…
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Event Report: Abusive and Offensive Online Communications: the current criminal law and the need for reform
Christopher Ireland reports on the recent lecture by Professor David Ormerod touching on the Law Commission’s work around online harm and abuse…
POFMA: Singapore’s anti-fake news law
Darren Grayson Chng, our Singapore Correspondent, reports on the background and passage of Singapore’s controversial fake news law which has extra territorial consequences…
Government publishes response to Committee report on Disinformation
The UK government has published its response to the DCSM Select Committee’s final report on Disinformation….
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This week’s Techlaw News Round-Up
Draft investigatory powers regulations published, Law Society guidance, gambling news and HMTCS blog post in this week’s round-up of techlaw news from the past week…