29 Nov, 2018 Ransomware: should you pay? By Natalie Donovan With recent research showing that the threat of large GDPR fines is encouraging UK IT directors to pay cyber ransoms (as reported in...
29 Nov, 2018 How to design a digital services tax By Slaughter and May In the Budget, The Chancellor announced the introduction of a “narrowly targeted” Digital Services Tax. It is indeed narrowly targeted,...
28 Nov, 2018 Exploring technological solutions for the Irish border post Brexit By Slaughter and May Over the last week or two there has been lots of debate about unnamed 'technological solutions' for avoiding a hard border in Ireland. So...
28 Nov, 2018 What's in store for 2019? By Emily Lew Predicting the future is an art, not a science, and it remains to be seen whether many of the predictions for 2019 in this trend...
28 Nov, 2018 Alexa, have we been hacked? By Rob Sumroy Internet users have so far only had to worry about computers and smartphones being protected against hackers. Whether they download a...
26 Nov, 2018 A call for innovation in stamp duty By Slaughter and May The Victorians designed a stamp duty collection system that required one or more coloured stamps to be embossed on a document at one of...
25 Nov, 2018 Data, experimentation and innovation By Rob Sumroy All businesses face the challenge of managing hugely increasing volumes of data, ranging from usage data derived from their systems and...
23 Nov, 2018 The societal impact of digitisation By Slaughter and May Deliveroo has not made it onto the Financial Times' list of European digital champions this year, after splitting the jury over its...
22 Nov, 2018 AI: dressed for success By Slaughter and May An AI algorithm has successfully learned how to dress itself, even adapting when researchers changed the starting position and shape of...
22 Nov, 2018 Busting myths about blockchain and operational costs By Emma Walton The Global Data Thematic Research Summit held today raised some interesting questions about the promises made by distributed ledger tech...
21 Nov, 2018 Taxing GIG workers By Slaughter and May Uber is apparently going to collect tax from its Mexican drivers. The UK is also struggling to work out how to collect tax from GIG...
16 Nov, 2018 UK Court of Appeal goes live on YouTube - a win or loss for access to justice? By Slaughter and May Yesterday for the first time in UK legal history, a Court of Appeal case was streamed live on YouTube. The case, WH Holding Limited and...
14 Nov, 2018 Innovating for diversity: 2 By Jane Stewart Following on from my recent post on diversity driving innovation and my experience of this at S and M, it's great to see innovation...
12 Nov, 2018 Automation: a question of more than cost By Slaughter and May Early conversations around automation often focus on the financials: how much will it cost to implement, and what is the potential future...
12 Nov, 2018 Hydrogen is making a comeback By Slaughter and May For years, most of the talk in the renewables sector has been around solar, wind, nuclear, hydro and bio-fuels. But now hydrogen is...
12 Nov, 2018 AI Military Solutions? By Billie Moore In recent years, China has looked to private start-ups to share any new technologies developed with the military in efforts to improve...