DCMS sets out "new, ground-breaking approach" to governing tech in UK.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport yesterday published its Plan for Digital Regulation. The plan openly capitalises on the government's post-Brexit freedom, and is clear in its ambition to "cement [the UK's] position as the tech... Read more
Strategy and Accountability in Digital Trade Deals.
On the day the UK government announced the start of negotiations on a new breed of "Digital Economy Agreement" between the UK and Singapore, the House of Commons International Trade Committee published their first report from the committee's... Read more
Head in the clouds? Codes of conduct may be the way forward.
There have been discussions for some time now about how standards and codes of conduct can help regulate the (broadly divergent) cloud sector. Yesterday’s discussion at the Privacy Law & Business’s (PL&B) annual conference was interesting in... Read more
Peterson v Google LLC: a “so what?” for copyright?
Should online platforms like YouTube and Uploaded be liable for copyright infringing content posted by their users? This was the critical question for the CJEU in Peterson v Google LLC and Elsevier Inc v Cyando AG and one which had vexed copyright... Read more
Ban facial recognition in public: EDPB calls for new AI law to be tougher.
The EU’s groundbreaking AI proposals (see our Lens Blog), published 21 April 2021, have been broadly welcomed by the EU’s top data protection bodies (the EDPB and EDPS). However, they do have concerns, including around biometric surveillance, as... Read more
International tax reform – now it’s time to get excited!
In my previous blog, I couldn’t get too excited about the G7’s announcement on 5 June that agreement in principle had been reached on some key aspects of international tax reform because there was so little detail and an agreement between 7 seemed... Read more
Plenty more phish in the sea? Cyber risks for SMEs in the supply chain.
57% of small and medium-sized enterprises believe they would go out of business from a serious cyber attack, according to a new report by ENISA (the EU’s agency for cybersecurity). The report included a survey of SMEs in the EU, and highlighted... Read more
European Commission finds preliminary concerns in respect of Internet of Things.
The European Commission has found preliminary competition concerns in its sector inquiry into the rapidly-expanding Internet of Things. The initial findings, which focus on voice assistants such as Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri and Google... Read more
Get set, update! European Commission publishes finalised SCCs for data transfers.
On Friday 4 June 2021, the European Commission published the final version of its long awaited standard contractual clauses for transferring personal data outside of the EEA (SCCs). The new SCCs include some welcome developments, including... Read more
