Mar 10, 2023 That's my crypto – fork it over! By Matthew Harman How far would you go to get your hands on billions of pounds worth of cryptocurrency? Dr Craig White, who also claims to be Satoshi...
Feb 14, 2023 Faces and breaches: ICO doubles down on tailored approach to UK data enforcement By Alex Buchanan In the first few weeks of 2023, the ICO has continued to espouse its commitment to exercising its full spectrum of enforcement powers....
Jan 26, 2023 ICO tech report highlights privacy challenges for four key technologies By Natalie Donovan The ICO is encouraging developers to consider privacy at an early stage when implementing new technologies and, in its first annual...
Jan 20, 2023 New app store Code of Practice By Jack Higgins In December last year, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published a new ‘first of its kind’ code of practice...
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...
Nov 29, 2022 EU expands scope of its cyber rules as NIS 2 agreed By Charles MacRae The EU has agreed changes to its cybersecurity rules. On 22 November 2022, the “NIS 2 Directive” received approval from the European...
Oct 31, 2022 G7 Publishes Compendium on Competition in Digital Markets By Katie Hudson Competition authorities from the G7, along with a number of guest authorities, have recently published a compendium on competition in...
Sep 07, 2022 And then there were three...Law Commission digital asset reform proposes 3rd class of personal property By Laura Monaghan In the introduction to its recent consultation on Digital Assets, the Law Commission states that it is proposing few changes to the law,...
Jul 20, 2022 Is the NIS regime working? Changes proposed in new review By Edmund Berney This month, the Government published its second post-implementation review of the 2018 Network and Information Systems (‘NIS’)...
Jul 19, 2022 UK diverges from EU on new plans for AI regulation By Natalie Donovan The 18th July was a busy day for AI in the UK. As well as publishing the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, which includes AI...
Jun 23, 2022 UK financial regulators to oversee big cloud providers By Selmin Hakki HM Treasury (HMT) has unveiled plans to introduce a new framework that would provide the UK financial regulators - the Bank of England,...
Jun 15, 2022 UK promises 'light-touch, pro-growth regulatory regime' in new digital strategy By Natalie Donovan On Monday, the UK Government published its long awaited digital strategy. It replaces the existing (2017) strategy and sets out plans for...
May 05, 2022 No longer “too big to care”: EU’s Digital Services Act takes aim at Musk and online platforms By Richard McDonnell Elon Musk’s free speech driven Twitter bid coincides with the EU reaching political agreement on its Digital Services Act. Elon Musk’s...
Apr 28, 2022 Google responds to CNIL Cookie Fine – ‘Reject All’ now on equal footing By Charles MacRae Google has announced the completion of “a full redesign” of its cookie consent practices and the “infrastructure” it uses to handle...
Apr 04, 2022 Key themes for 2022: an interview with tech partner Laura Houston By Natalie Donovan I recently interviewed Laura Houston, a partner in our tech group, about the key themes she is currently discussing with clients in the...
Mar 30, 2022 Who will guard the 'gatekeepers': EU one step closer to regulating Big Tech By Slaughter and May The European Union's institutions came together at the midnight bell, on 25 March 2022 and reached provisional political agreement on the...