Dec 20, 2022 Government pushes ahead with plans to strengthen UK’s cyber resilience and regulate more IT services By Natalie Donovan Protecting critical services and infrastructure from cyber incidents is a key priority for legislators on both sides of the channel. We...
Dec 08, 2022 UK Government Scraps Controversial Proposals to Tackle Legal but Harmful Content Online By Catherine O'Callaghan The UK government has confirmed that it is abandoning controversial provisions in its Online Safety Bill to make tech firms take down...
Dec 06, 2022 Fundraising during rockier times – key takeaways By James Cook During a recent panel session moderated by Slaughter and May for late-stage UK start-ups, titled ‘Fundraising during rockier times’, we...
Nov 29, 2022 EU expands scope of its cyber rules as NIS 2 agreed By Slaughter and May The EU has agreed changes to its cybersecurity rules. On 22 November 2022, the “NIS 2 Directive” received approval from the European...
Nov 24, 2022 ICO warns immature biometric technologies could discriminate, and organisations may be investigated By Natalie Donovan The ICO has warned organisations to carefully assess the risks if considering using emotion analysis technologies as they will be...
Nov 23, 2022 The proof is in the (crypto) pudding: is Proof of Reserves a solution to crypto’s trust problem? By Elizabeth Huang In any normal week, reports that nearly half a billion dollars in cryptoassets had been stolen from a cryptocurrency exchange would be...
Nov 18, 2022 The ICO publishes tips on how to improve your use of AI By Natalie Donovan The ICO has published new AI guidance, setting out its top tips on how to use AI and personal data appropriately and lawfully. It can...
Nov 17, 2022 ICO publishes new set of international data transfers guidance By Bryony Bacon Today, the ICO has published a suite of new international transfers guidance, including its long awaited final guidance on ‘transfer risk...
Nov 11, 2022 Hold On! There’s no Hold Up or Hold Out By Slaughter and May When can a Standard Essential Patent (SEP) owner obtain an injunction against an infringer? The Court of Appeal clarifies in Optis v...
Oct 31, 2022 G7 Publishes Compendium on Competition in Digital Markets By Slaughter and May Competition authorities from the G7, along with a number of guest authorities, have recently published a compendium on competition in...
Oct 25, 2022 Are you on top of your cyber supply chain risk? If not, new NCSC guidance may help By Natalie Donovan Is your organisation one of the mere 7% of businesses who review the cyber risks posed by your wider supply chain, or one of the 93% that...
Oct 24, 2022 UKIPO publishes guidance on examining patent applications for AI inventions By Richard Barker As promised in its response to its Call for Views on AI and IP, the UKIPO has published a set of guidelines clarifying how it will...
Oct 24, 2022 Managing cyber risks: key lessons from the Interserve decision By Ross O'Mahony This morning, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced that it had fined Interserve Group Limited (Interserve) £4,400,000...
Oct 19, 2022 Hardly an Easylife: Key lessons from the ICO’s latest GDPR enforcement action By Alex Buchanan In early October 2022, UK catalogue retailer Easylife was issued separate financial penalties by the ICO under the PECR (£130,000) and...
Oct 18, 2022 The ICO’s new approach to DSAR enforcement: naming and shaming By Hilal Temel On 28 September, the ICO announced it had issued reprimands to seven organisations for repeatedly failing to respond to data subject...
Oct 14, 2022 One step closer to mutual adequacy for EU-US and UK-US data flows By Cindy Knott On Friday 7 October, US president Biden signed an Executive Order which, alongside the regulations issued by the Attorney General,...