Terence Bergin QC and Quentin Tannock use the rise and expected further development of FinTech to explore some of the legal issues that might arise from AI…
AI: Making the UK Ready Willing and Able
Lord Tim Clement-Jones writes about the important report from the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence which he chaired and the recommendations its Report put forward…
ICO Consults on Regulatory Action Policy
The Information Commissioner’s Office has published a draft regulatory action policy and seeks views on it in the period to 28 June….
Advocate General’s Opinion on Disclosure of Metadata
The disclosure of metadata may be justified in investigation of offences that do not constitute serious offences in the opinion of an Advocate General to the Court of Justice. But the special circumstances required to be present to justify an interference with the right to privacy are likely to be rare and did not apply in the instant case…
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Is Data the New DNA?
David Chaplin reports on the doubts surrounding evidential data and criminal law voiced at the recent SCL event, “When the internet of things goes to court”…
Latest Data Retention Judgment
Judgment has been given on Liberty’s application for judicial review of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, part 4 and its compatibility with EU law. The aspect of part 4 which was conceded to be incompatible was indeed declared incompatible….
Software Lock and Injunction Refusal
An intriguing High Court judgment on an application for an injunction requiring a software supplier to provide access to business software from which the customer was locked out following an alleged breach of contract…
Human Rights Judgment on Accessing IP Address Information
According to the European Court of Human Rights, police accessing subscriber information associated with a dynamic IP address breached a suspect’s human rights by failing to obtain a court order prior to access…
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New Office for SCL
SCL has moved into new office premises…
CPD Online: April/May 2018 Edition of Computers & Law
Questions arising from the April/May 2018 issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL:OC64 – CPD: 1 hour 30 minutes…
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