Whatever the doubts, getting the introduction and implementation of ODR right is crucial and standing on the side-lines criticising won’t assist. But it can only be a help to the many if we look hard at the expensive support that has to go with it…
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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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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Whet your appetite for the IFCLA Conference with two articles from its many speakers…
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…
SCL is delighted that Professor Richard Susskind OBE has agreed to give the Annual Lecture for 2016…
John Rumbold looks at the possible effect of the General Data Protection Regulation on research in the healthcare field…
Joe McNamee’s article, one of our regular opinion pieces, may raise wider debate about the real meaning of privacy in a changed data landscape…
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Kit Burden looks at the potential impact of robotics process automation and related technology on the outsourcing industry and highlights some aspects that should be getting the attention of tech lawyers operating in the outsourcing sphere….
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In another in our series focusing on the impact of the GDPR, Natalie Stockmann asks if the end of the old funding model for the ICO creates a challenge or opportunity…
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