What is RegTech? Lorraine Chimbga and Ryan Barnes give the answers and explain why it is having an impact on the financial industry and how it might have an impact on lawyers too….
Book Review: Collisions in the Digital Paradigm
Laurence Eastham reviews a new book from David J Harvey, Collisions in the Digital Paradigm: Law and Rule Making in the Internet Age (Hart Publishing; 401 pp: ISBN 978-1-50990-652-9)…
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SCL Student Essay Prize 2017 Winner
The winner of the SCL Essay Prize is Lottie Michael….
Book Review: Queer Privacy
Neil Brown reviews Sarah Jamie Lewis’s edited book ‘Queer Privacy’, and reflects on what lawyers and privacy advisors can do differently in light of its message….
Human Rights Judgment: Access to Computer Files Without Judicial Authorisation
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that granting police access to computer files containing child pornography material without prior judicial authorisation, in a non-emergency situation, violated the owner’s right to respect for his private life…
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Reasonable Skill and Care in the Age of Machine Learning: Some Preliminary Thoughts
In an appetiser for one of the sessions at the forthcoming SCL Conference – on AI and machine learning – Matthew Lavy shares some thoughts on machine learning and liability…
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Book Review: We Know All About You
Lorraine Chimbga reviews We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America
by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (OUP, 304 pp, £18.99) ISBN: 9780198749660…
Setting the Right Goals, in the Right Order
Laurence Eastham comments on the ICO’s strategic plan….
The GDPR and the Parallel Regime
As we prepare for the GDPR, Bob Miller thinks the time is right to remind us of the legal regime that will run in parallel with it and calls on the ICO to practise what it preaches….
SCL Event Report: Foundations of IT Law Programme – Renegotiation and Disputes
The 11th module in the Foundations of IT Law programme was ‘Renegotiation and Disputes’. The seminar, chaired by James Farrell, a partner in the Disputes Division of Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, set out some of the key points that both contentious and non-contentious lawyers should have in mind in relation to disputes in the IT…
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