A "global gold standard": the UK government consults on proposed measures to bolster the security and resilience of UK data infrastructure.
The UK government is consulting on proposed regulations to improve the security and resilience of UK data infrastructure, including data centres. The consultation, which will close on 22 February 2024, follows the Department for Digital,... Read more.
EU AI Act agreed as UK says it won't legislate until timing is right.
After months of fierce debate, political agreement was finally reached on the EU’s landmark AI Act on 8th December 2023. Ursula von der Leyen described it as “the first-ever comprehensive legal framework on Artificial Intelligence worldwide” and... Read more.
Using AI in the transition to next zero.
The recent explosive growth in the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) has dominated conversations in 2023. Part of those discussions have centred on the transformative potential (or indeed, reality) of AI on the... Read more.
EU opens proceedings against X for possible breaches of the DSA.
X has become the first company to have formal proceedings for potential breaches of the Digital Services Act (“DSA”) launched against it by the European Commission. In a press release published earlier this week, the Commission announced that it... Read more.
ANNother patent? Has the High Court paved the way for increased patentability of Artificial Neural Networks?
Patenting AI inventions is notoriously complex, with budding patentees having to weave a fine line between various exclusions from patentability. One exclusion that can be particularly problematic in this sector is that for computer programs... Read more.
High Court refuses to throw Getty Images' IP infringement claim against generative AI provider Stability AI.
As 2023 draws to a close, generative AI remains a hot topic. Not only can you now look the term up in the dictionary, but we also have the first decision from a UK court looking at IP infringement in the context of generative AI. In this... Read more.
A Christmas Data Carol: Contentious Data Past, Current and Yet to Come.
The end of the year is now firmly in sight, which is a somewhat scary prospect from a Christmas shopping perspective! That does however mean that, like Scrooge, it seemed a good time for us to look back at where we are with EU/UK GDPR enforcement... Read more.
US Data & Trust Alliance announce first cross-industry standards for data provenance.
As AI continues to dominate the headlines, one word that is consistently cropping up is “transparency” - particularly in relation to the origin of data sets that have been used to train AI systems. Over the last few months, we’ve seen... Read more.
Court of Appeal finds in favour of CMA cloud market investigation.
The Court of Appeal has today ruled unanimously that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) was justified in launching a market investigation into mobile browsers and cloud gaming in November 2022. Apple had challenged the CMA's decision on... Read more.
