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AI Ethics principles are crucial and now developers need to walk-the-talk

August 12, 2020

In the face of an ever increasing number of AI ethics principles, Dr Lance Eliot highlights work on some of the common factors and suggests some changes that need to happen before they can be put into action….

Cyber is a business risk like any other

August 10, 2020

In our latest cybersecurity post, Peter Yapp explains why Cyber Security Risk should be considered a business risk like any other – not “an IT problem’….

High Court upholds trade secrets injunction over battery separators

August 10, 2020

Decision appears to be the first UK court decision providing interim relief under the Trade Secrets Regulations…

SCL webinar: “The Privacy Shield is dead. Long live….what?”

August 10, 2020

Chair:David Chaplin, SCL Editor Speakers:Renzo Marchini, Partner, Privacy, Security and Information Group, FieldfisherFlorian Tannen, Partner, Baker McKenzie, MunichKatalina Bateman, Counsel, IP, Tech & Data Group, Reed Smith LLPJanet Lane, Privacy Counsel, Refinitiv The CJEU decision this week in the latest Schrems case against Facebook has seen them decide that the current Privacy Shield arrangements are…

South Wales Police use of facial recognition technology was proportionate rules Court of Appeal

August 10, 2020

Though the court found that their DPIA and consideration of discriminatory effect was lacking, and that the interference in Article 8 rights was not in accordance with the law, South Wales Police have indicated that they do not intend to appeal….

The real-world effects of ‘fake news’ – and how to quantify them

August 9, 2020

The spread of anti-vaccination misinformation on social media, (and its implications for public health and the global fight against COVID-19) is a textbook example of how misinformation can have serious real world effects particularly while we tackle the virus. In advance of a webinar for SCL in September looking at causation in civil cases, a team of economists and data experts from FTI Consulting explain how social media data, artificial intelligence and traditional statistical analysis can be deployed – together – to examine important questions of causation arising from ‘fake news’….