Graham Smith’s Keynote Speech to the SCL Annual Conference 2019 in which he argues that proposed cures for a broken internet risk harming the patient….
Tech Law for Everyone
Caroline, Gould, SCL CEO, looks forward to this year’s ground-breaking Annual Lecture…
Key Takeaways from the SCL Masterclass on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Disputes – Tuesday 24 September 2019, London
Allan Murray summarises the key learning outcomes from the SCL Masterclass on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Disputes held in London on 24 September 2019…
Orders to remove or block social media content can have worldwide reach, CJEU rules
CJEU rules, in Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook, that EU law does not prevent Facebook from being ordered to remove identical and, in certain circumstances, equivalent comments previously declared to be illegal nor does it prevent such orders applying worldwide….
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In Other News: This Week’s Techlaw Round-Up
Cyber Assessment Frameworks update, E-Privacy Regulations Discussion note, No Deal Brexit.eu domain names and more: a round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site…
Court of Appeal allows mass data protection claim against Google to proceed
The Court of Appeal has allowed, on a unanimous basis, an appeal in Lloyd v Google LLC [2019] EWCA Civ 1599 which may open the way for mass data protection claims….
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Storing cookies requires internet users’ active consent, rules CJEU
The CJEU has ruled that storing cookies requires internet users’ specific active consent and that pre-ticked tick-boxes are insufficient….
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Autonomous vehicles, software and product liability: have the Law Commissions missed an opportunity?
Leah Grolman thinks autonomous vehicles provide the ideal test case for examining the relationship between consumer protection law and software liability and that the Law Commissions have failed to grasp the opportunity to examine the issue….
Introducing Data Trusts: what are they and what are the legal considerations?
Emily Barwell considers the legal considerations when setting up a data trust and discusses when it may be appropriate to use this new and innovative concept emerging in the data ethics space…
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From the SCL Editor: Education, education, education – Friday 27 September 2019
One of the great things about the SCL is that we are an educational charity. Obviously education can encompass an extraordinarily wide range of activities. It can mean the dissemination of technical information for the expert, as represented by the (hopefully) informative news and analysis in Computers & Law and on scl.org, or organising our…
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