The third edition of the Blockchain: Legal & Regulatory Guidance is published

ICO issues report warning of dangers of discrimination in neurotechnologies

The report sets out possible future avenues of development for neurotechnology, including in the workplace and employee hiring, the sports sector, personal health and wellbeing and marketing and video games.

All Party Parliamentary Group for Crypto & Digital Assets publishes report

The APPG says that the need for regulation is urgent.

This Week's Techlaw News Round-Up

Call for evidence on Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill, CMA consults on proposed commitments in respect of Meta's use of advertising data, Commission adopts new Horizontal Block Exemption Regulations and Horizontal Guidelines and other UK and EU techlaw news not covered elsewhere on the SCL website.

Advertising in the metaverse: 3 top points to consider

Shayna-Radhika Patel with some useful reminders for anyone advising on metaverse brand advertising

Open Source Law, Policy and Practice

Rónán Kennedy reviews a new edition of the leading text on open source and the law.

This Week's Techlaw News Round-Up

More amendments proposed for the Online Safety Bill, Artificial Intelligence (Regulation and Workers’ Rights) Bill proposed, ASA issues annual report and other UK and EU techlaw news from the past week not covered elsewhere on the SCL website.

House of Commons Treasury Committee issues report on cryptoassets

The Committee strongly recommends regulation of retail trading and investment activity in unbacked cryptoassets as gambling rather than as a financial service.

ESG News Round-up (May 2023)

Sarah Hill, chair of the SCL ESG group, pulls together some recent developments of special interest to tech lawyers

The decentralised governance of bitcoin: truth or myth?

Lara Kuehl summarises the jurisdiction and fiduciary duty issues relating to bitcoin considered by the Court of Appeal in Tulip Trading