Predictions: Who wants to live in Carbon Nanotube Valley?
Rebecca Keating, barrister at 4 Pump Court, on the quantum supremacy race and a new boost for classical computers…
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This week’s Techlaw News Round-Up
European Commission publishes EU Cybersecurity Taxonomy The European Commission has recently published a revision of its cybersecurity taxonomy guidelines. The taxonomy aims to provide a clear definition of the cybersecurity context, its domains of application, research and knowledge. It proposes a high level set of definitions and categorisation domains so that they can be used…
Cybersecurity for Lawyers: 3 – Your website
In another of our series of “Back to Basics” articles, adapted from the Cybersecurity for Lawyers wiki he has recently started, Neil Brown explains how to ensure your website is secure….
Reflections on 2019: Convergence, Incursion and Contradictions
Kicking off our Predictions, Reflections and Resolutions in earnest, Anna Cook and Vik Khurana of Bristows reflect on how technology has featured in society in 2019, touching on announcements by tech companies, investigations by regulators and pitches by political leaders….
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Farming: Computer law’s new (rather old) frontier
Dr Fernando Barrio reveals a crop of IP, data and privacy issues associated with new techniques in agricultural production….
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Cybersecurity for Lawyers: 2 – Using Wifi at home and aboard
In the second of our series of “Back to Basics” articles, adapted from the Cybersecurity for Lawyers wiki he has recently started, Neil Brown gives some practical tips on using wi-fi when out and about and setting it up in-house….
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Singapore’s anti fake news law: now used 3 times but does not make posts disappear
Darren Grayson Chng, our Singapore corespondent, reports on the first uses of the Singapore’s Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA)….
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Liability for AI: European Commission publishes Experts’ report
Report looks at liability for AI and other digital technologies….
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This week’s Techlaw News Round-Up
Court of Appeal grants leave to appeal in facial recognition case The Court of Appeal has granted leave to appeal the High Court decision in R (on the application of Bridges) v Chief Constable of South Wales Police (Information Commissioner and another intervening) [2019] EWHC 2341, relating to South Wales’ police use of facial recognition…
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ASA upholds complaint about targeting of online advertising The ASA has upheld a complaint this week relating to an advertisement which appeared on a children’s TV channel for Popjam, a social media site for 7-12 year olds. The complainant was concerned that the advertisement’s encouragement to “get likes and followers to level up” could be…