Dr Lance Eliot, our new Associate Editor in the US, reviews how state and Federal governments are working in a wild west of contact tracing apps…
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The MIT Contact Tracing App Database
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has collated a page of contract tracing apps from around the world….
This Week’s Techlaw News Round-Up
Progress report on e-privacy regulation, TikTOK and the EDPB, delay to drones legislation, outsourcing playbook updated, UK strategy for tech industry and more in this week’s round-up of other techlaw news from the past week….
Weekly Wellbeing: The 21 Day Focus Challenge
Created for SCL by Nick Watson and Gary Waters…
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UK government publishes response to Select Committee report on immersive and addictive technologies: calls for evidence on ‘loot boxes’
Full response and policy recommendations on online harms due by end of year, along with call for evidence on loot boxes….
Automation, the march of the ‘digital giants’ and the future of work examined in Covid-19 rapid review
Joint report focusses on automation and technology as well as calling for changes to competition law….
Of Liability For Contactless Card Payments And The End of Unilateral Change Clauses: Part 1
In the first of a two part article, Simon Deane-Johns looks at some surprising consequences (if followed) of the Advocate General’s opinion on contactless payments in Denizbank. In Part 1, he sets out the facts and why the outcome will be so important. Part 2 will look at the questions of whether contactless payments are anonymous….
EDPB: “Even in these exceptional times, the protection of personal data must be upheld in all emergency measures “
Statement on Article 23 of the GDPR adopted in response to a letter from Civil Liberties Union for Europe, Access Now and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union about the Hungarian Government’s Decree 179/2020 of 4 May, which suspends the GDPR in relation to dealing with the pandemic…
European Commission consults on replacement for the e-commerce directive
New Digital Services Act will replace the 20-year old regime….
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SCL Weekly Wellbeing: What Are You Really Chasing?
Created for SCL by Nick Watson and Gary Waters…
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