Legislation and Regulation
LawTech: Big deal or a lot of hot air?
Leon Deakin, Partner and Head of Employment at law firm Coffin Mew, examines LawTech. Does it herald the end of face to face interaction in the legal industry?
No-win-no-fee company fined by ICO for illegal text messages
ICO: 'Generic third-party consent is not enough and companies will be fined if they break the law'
Google CEO Pichai called to answer questions before US Congress
Likely to have to answer questions on helping China's censors, political bias and anti trust
EU to pressure tech companies on handing over evidence to authorities
Telcos and platform providers to be given 10 days to hand over data or face fines
Lack of oversight has created 'Wild West' among mobile providers that SMEs are paying for
Only one in 10 SMEs get a fair deal from their mobile providers, claims a new study
Private Facebook documents seized by parliament
Documents allegedly contain email conversations about privacy controls that led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal
'GDPR is one of the best things to happen for data security,' says CIO roundtable
A CIO roundtable states that the EU's General Data Protection Regulation has helped focus board minds on security
Tim Berners-Lee proposes breaking up tech giants
Companies like Facebook and Amazon are too dominant and hold too much power, says the father of the World Wide Web
AI - where does the liability lie?
Emma Stevens, a dispute resolution specialist at law firm Coffin Mew, explains who should be responsible when AI goes wrong
Why the class action against Google for misuse of personal internet data was rejected by the Court
Rory Lynch, a solicitor in the media team at law firm Seddons, discusses a recent English High Court decision to stop a class action lawsuit brought against Google
Blockchain and smart contracts - dispute resolution challenges
Emma Stevens, Associate Solicitor - Dispute Resolution, Coffin Mew, explains what smart contracts are, how they can benefit organisations, and how the law is set to change
Blockchain could be 'transformational' for small businesses, says Minister
Significant potential for distributed ledgers in ensuring prompter payments, says Margot James, Minister of State at the DCMS
You could be fined twice for the same breach under GDPR and NIS
Critical infrastructure providers could be hit with a double penalty for a data breach where new EU laws coincide
Legislators need to be leading the debate around AI not playing catchup, says Lloyds Bank analyst
As technology advances exponentially legislators need to find a way to do the same, argues panel
Algorithms in the justice system: Should computers decide our fate?
James Kitching, Solicitor - Corporate, Coffin Mew, examines the phenomenon of decisions being made by machines in the justice system
ICO levels first ever GDPR notice against AggregateIQ
The company has 30 days to audit its data practises, or face the maximum £17 million fine
EU copyright law may end up pleasing no-one
Three IP lawyers pick over the result of the recent vote and find much that still needs clarification
Atrium wants to automate lawyers' offices
The company has just finished a $65 million funding round
Amendments to EU copyright proposals welcome but insufficient, say IP experts ahead of Wednesday's vote
Academics welcome removal of upload filters and exemption of platforms like Wikipedia, but say it 'misses the opportunity to strengthen the position of creators sustainably'
From EMI to YouTube musicians always lose - but the EU copyright proposals may not help
The devil's in the detail of Articles 11 and 13
New president of British Science Association warns of dangers of unregulated AI
Professor Jim Al-Khalili wants the public to be educated to avoid a public backlash against AI, like GM foods
MEPs to vote on controversial copyright law again next week
Fierce lobbying sets artists and publishers against free speech activists and the tech industry, with the vote too close to call
Tech doesn't need regulation - it needs a conscience
There are better ways to control an industry that government intervention
A customer's approach to the cloud - ensuring consistency in security
Intellectual Property & Technology partner, Duncan Pithouse, and senior associate, Roxanne Chow from law firm DLA Piper, outline what firms should consider when looking to use cloud services
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