GDPR Focus Like Hannibal Smith in the A-Team, I love it when a plan comes together. But I love it even more when my half-baked idea for a vehicle gets grasped by the SCL membership and turned into something that looks like a beautifully engineered limousine. And that’s what happened with this issue. The GDPR…
This is an exciting time for technology and the legal frameworks that touch and are touched by technology. This Society exists to enable us all to share and learn from each other in our chosen area. We are a collective of some of the brightest and most innovative minds, undertaking ground-breaking work. If we can…
Andres Guadamuz and Chris Marsden explain the origins of blockchain, highlight some of its applications and look to its future…
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Lorna Cropper explains why she believes that users of wearable technology will receive greater protection under the GDPR, in particular via data protection by design and by default and because of codes of conduct and certification….
Stephen Mathias gives some insight into the recent regulation of net neutrality in India, which outlaws tariffs that discriminate on the basis of content. It sheds greater light on the recent Facebook face-off with the Indian authorities over ‘Free Basics’…
In his first communication with SCL members as SCL Chair, Mark O’Conor gives a sense of where SCL has got to and where it can go as a Society over the next few years….
Martin Sloan and Kathryn Alexander look at the effect of the GDPR on younger users and the controversial restrictions on their use of online services…
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Mark O’Conor has taken over from Roger Bickerstaff as Chair of SCL. Laurence Eastham got to talk to them both about what it means for SCL…
This issue is remarkable for the fact that it is almost completely dominated by articles covering two themes: predictions and the fall-out from Schrems. Predictions I am very grateful to all those who responded to my call for predictions and have been amazed that so many have come up with contributions that are fresh and…
These predictions come from a wide cross-section of lawyers engaged in tech law…