Nov 19, 2024 Ofcom open letter clarifies how Online Safety Act will apply to GenAI By Jack Higgins On 8 November, Ofcom published an open letter to online service providers clarifying how the UK’s Online Safety Act (‘OSA’) will apply to...
Oct 22, 2024 FCA launches new 'AI Lab' for financial services sector By Emily Bradley The FCA has launched a new ‘AI Lab’, seeking to support innovators as they develop new AI solutions while deepening its own understanding...
Oct 17, 2024 Are you ready for NIS2 – new EU cyber law applies from 18 October By Natalie Donovan New European cyber law NIS2 must be implemented at local member state level by 18 October. Do you know if you are in scope (and if you...
Oct 16, 2024 Revolutionising Regulation: The UK’s New Innovation Office Takes Centre Stage By Alexander Gulli Commitments to boost investment and innovation in the UK were central to the Labour party’s manifesto, as we wrote about in our previous...
Sep 26, 2024 European Commission publishes Competition Policy Brief on generative AI and virtual worlds By Jonathan Slade Jennyfer Moreau On 19 September 2024, the European Commission published a Policy Brief on competition in generative AI and virtual worlds. The Policy...
Aug 19, 2024 Things get Emotional as Court of Appeal says ANN inventions do engage computer program exclusion By Slaughter and May We have previously discussed (here, here and here) the exclusion of computer programs from UK patentability and its significance to the...
Jul 24, 2024 How should privacy teams be managing AI? By Cindy Knott Bryony Bacon Not a week goes by without AI making the headline news, one of the latest items being the landmark EU AI Act entering into force on 1...
Jul 24, 2024 Good Governance around AI – what does it require? By Natalie Donovan Rob Sumroy As AI adoption increases, and new AI laws, regulation and guidance are published, organisations are rightly focussing on their AI...
Jul 09, 2024 Creating a level playing field: the EU AI Act and copyright By Issabella Cardu The EU AI Act is due to be published in the Official Journal of the EU in the coming days and will enter into force 20 days after...
Jun 22, 2024 Are you ready for new data sharing rules? By Hilal Temel Boosting access to data, data sharing and the data economy has become an increasingly important policy objective for the UK government...
May 28, 2024 Tech firms told to ‘tame toxic algorithms’ as Ofcom publishes child safety consultation By Jack Higgins On 8 May, Ofcom published its child safety consultation as part of its ongoing implementation of the Online Safety Act (‘OSA’)....
May 24, 2024 The Automated Vehicles Act 2024 becomes law in the UK By Scott Cormack On 20 May 2024 the UK passed the Automated Vehicles Act 2024 (“the Act”). With regulation widely seen as one of the primary hurdles to...
May 22, 2024 Cyber threats evolving as a result of new technologies, warns ICO By Ollie Cantrill Cyber attacks are happening more frequently and will become increasingly sophisticated thanks to new technologies– organisations need to...
May 16, 2024 ANNd here we go: UK IPO releases its updated guidelines for examining patent applications relating to AI By Issy Spiro Last week, the UK IPO released its updated guidelines for examining patent applications relating to AI. This hotly anticipated re-release...
Apr 23, 2024 ICO’s Serco enforcement for biometric data use – what employers need to know By Helena Davies The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has announced that Serco Leisure and associated organisations have been issued with...
Mar 14, 2024 Data scraping: ICO’s first attempt at legal clarity By Slaughter and May Data scraping or “web scraping” has various definitions but essentially means the process of gathering, copying or extracting information...