Darren Grayson Chng, our Singapore correspondent, reports on how the authorities there are fighting coronavirus misinformation with the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act that came into force last year….
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Data Protection (Independent Complaint) Bill receives first reading in House of Lords The Data Protection (Independent Complaint) Bill has received its first reading in the House of Lords. It amends the Data Protection Act 2018 to grant representative bodies and organisations power to exercise independent complaint and remedy rights on behalf of data subjects. The…
UK government says more research is needed to refine next steps but intends to introduce legislation….
Advocate General gives opinion that car rental companies do not communicate works to public Advocate General Szpunar has given an opinion in the case of C-753/18 Stim and Sami. The AG considered that car rental companies are not “users” that communicate works to the public under Article 3(1) of the InfoDoc Directive 2001/29/EC and Article…
The two consultations relate to improving wifi spectrum use and opening access to the Extremely High Frequency spectrum. Both consultations run until 20th March….
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Is the traditional outsourcing agreement, “engineered” for the pre-AI world, suitable in a world in which AI displaces both people and rules-based methods of automation? Zayed Al Jamil looks at the issues….
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The team at Lewis Silkin round off our series of Predictions for the year with a set of 20 predictions for 2020 touching on folding phones, 5G, AI in sports, 3D bio-printing and more….
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Nick Watson forsees that lawtech can improve the tech lawyer’s quality of life…
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Neil Brown, of decoded:legal, looks at what’s ahead for ISPs and telcos in 2020 touching on online harms, blocking pornography and surveillance regulation….
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The CMA is considering potential measures to open up the search market, measures to address the conflicts of interests and lack of transparency in digital advertising and requiring platforms to allow people to turn off personalised advertising. There are strong arguments for a new regulatory regime….
Read More… from CMA’s interim report on online platforms and digital advertising published