Haben Girma, a ‘global icon of disability advocacy’, gave the SCL Sir Brian Neill Lecture on 26 November at the IET. Laurence Eastham reports on this high-profile event.
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Court of Appeal to hear facial recognition case, new ICO information rights blog, EDPB 3rd annual review of the Privacy Shield plus more in our weekly round-up of techlaw news snippets and links to our more in-depth news
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David Chaplin, Editor of Computers & Law, was privileged to able to join in at the World Café that aimed to kick start new ideas for the law curriculum in the digital age. As he explains it was an impossible event to summarise.
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Lord Tim Clement-Jones ponders the impact that the growing use of AI will have on the world of work and what that means for the development of the curriculum. Adapted from his opening scene-setting speech delivered to the SCL World Café in November 2019.
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Directive supplements the VAT e-commerce directive and is due to come into force in 2021
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A Legal Statement on the status of cryptoassets and smart contracts has been launched by the Chancellor of the High Court
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The ICO is consulting on an application to be given investigative and other powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to close potential gap between civil and criminal fines
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The High Court has ruled that 77m Ltd's use of address data infringed the database rights of Ordnance Survey Ltd
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EC consults on platform-to-business compliance, EDPB 15th Plenary session, the Chancellor of the High Court’s speech announces soon to be published legal statement on smart contracts and cryptoassets plus more in our weekly round-up of techlaw news snippets and links to our more in-depth news
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In the first of a series of “Back to Basics” articles, adapted from the Cybersecurity for Lawyers wiki he has recently started, Neil Brown sets out some of the first steps that law firms should consider when putting in place their own cybersecurity policy touching on why it is important, how to assess the threats and documenting policies.
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