Update on proposed E-privacy Regulation The Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council of the EU recently discussed the draft E-Privacy Regulation. The draft regulation is subject to concerns about issues such as the role of the European Data Protection Board, preventing child abuse imagery, protecting terminal equipment information, data retention and interaction with new technologies. These…
Singapore’s anti fake news law: now used 3 times but does not make posts disappear
Darren Grayson Chng, our Singapore corespondent, reports on the first uses of the Singapore’s Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA)….
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Webinar: SCL Sir Brian Neill Lecture – “Disability & Innovation: The Universal Benefits of Inclusive Design” by Haben Girma
The SCL Lecture is in honour of the memory of Rt Hon Sir Brian Neill PC, a former President of SCL. Welcome:Professor Richard Susskind OBE, SCL President Introduction:Katherine (Katia) Ramo, Associate in Technology, Media, IP & Competition, CMS Speaker:Haben Girma, Disability Rights Lawyer, Author, Speaker Haben Girma, Disability Rights Lawyer, Author, Speaker “Disability & Innovation:…
Liability for AI: European Commission publishes Experts’ report
Report looks at liability for AI and other digital technologies….
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Calculating administrative fines under GDPR: the new German Concept
Christian Leuthner and Sven Schonhofen provide an overview of the Concept for calculating fines under the GDPR recently published by the German DPAs and which may point the way for further guidance from the EDPB…
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Explaining AI decision making: ICO and the Alan Turing Institute consult on joint guidance
Consultation runs until on 24 January 2020….
This week’s Techlaw News Round-Up
MEP priorities for Digital Services, Act, ICO blog post, e-scooter inqury, CAA drone guidance, European parliament briefing on cryptoassets, WTO e-commerce report, ICANN consultation and reports on contract tracing in this week’s round-up of techlaw news from the past week….
‘If a deafblind person can learn to surf, you can make an app accessible.’ Haben Girma’s SCL Sir Brian Neill Lecture
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….
STEAM NOT STEM! Training, jobs and education in the age of AI
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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Voices from the World Cafe
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….