Ofcom has referred the public cloud infrastructure services market to the Competition and Markets Authority for further investigation. Its market study has identified features that make it more difficult for UK businesses to switch and use multiple cloud suppliers. Ofcom says that it is particularly concerned about the position of the market leaders Amazon and…
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The ICO has published guidance to help employers fully comply with data protection law if they wish to monitor their workers. The ICO commissioned research about the issue which has revealed that almost one in five (19%) people believe that they have been monitored by an employer. The ICO points out that if monitoring becomes…
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The Advocate General has delivered his opinion in Case C-470/21 La Quadrature du Net and Others. The proceedings in this case were reopened and at the request of the Grand Chamber, the CJEU decided to refer the case to the full Court. The Advocate General had provided a previous opinion in these proceedings. The task…
The case of Case T-172/21 | Valve Corporation v Commission arose in the context of geo-blocking. The European Commission received information about geo-blocking of certain PC video games on the Steam platform users’ geographical location and so investigated. It concluded that Valve and five games publishers, (Bandai, Capcom, Focus Home, Koch Media and ZeniMax), infringed…
UK law Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023 made The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023 SI 2023/1007 have been made. They were made under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022. They introduce…
The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee has issued its report on the draft Media Bill, following an inquiry. It highlights that it is twenty years since the last significant piece of media legislation was passed, which was before streaming services and widespread internet access and TV was almost entirely analogue and…
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Video games may have been a niche hobby many moons ago, but advances in tech and the drive to commercialise entertainment products have launched ‘gaming’ into the mainstream. Total worldwide revenue of the video games industry is expected to be around $580 bn in 2030. Contrast that with the worldwide cinema box-office revenue of just…
In Internet Empire, Sean Ennis has fashioned a work that is ‘unabashedly not an academic treatise’ and instead aims to act as a refreshing ‘call to action’. There is not a footnote in sight, but it is evident that this highly engaging account of the meteoric rise of a small subset of digital firms is…
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In Case 5-115/22 | NADA e.a, an Austrian professional middle-distance runner has been found guilty of breaching Austrian anti-doping rules. The Austrian Anti-Doping Legal Committee (Österreichische Anti-Doping Rechtskommission, ÖADR) declared as invalid all results that the athlete had obtained during the period at issue, revoked any entry fees and/or prize money and banned her from…
Imagine you are a PSNI officer. Every day you work hard at keeping the peace in Northern Ireland, an area where peace can be hard to come by. One morning you start work and learn that your employer has unlawfully released your name, rank and work location to the public and those details are in…
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