29 Apr, 2021 The global online harms landscape: competing or coherent? By Ben Packer Jemma Purslow In a recent guest blog which appeared in Tech UK , we discussed the expanding regulatory landscape aimed at tackling harmful content...
28 Apr, 2021 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Consumer Terms & Conditions By Peter Church One of the themes in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the concept of power and bureaucracy. When Arthur Dent discovers his house...
27 Apr, 2021 English football joins the online harms debate with a social media boycott By Jemma Purslow Ben Packer In recent months, there has been a series of high-profile examples of footballers receiving racist and hateful abuse online. This...
23 Apr, 2021 DAC7 - EU introduces new reporting obligations for digital platforms By Tim Nobereit The EU legislator has introduced new reporting obligations for operators of digital platforms which will apply from 1 January 2023 to...
21 Apr, 2021 Three messages for the fintech/tech sectors from the UK's financial services regulator By Jennifer Calver Simon Treacy In his first speech to a fintech audience since taking the job, the head of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, Nikhil Rathi, indicated...
20 Apr, 2021 UK, German and Australian authorities express united front against “killer” tech deals By Verity Egerton-Doyle Earlier today the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), German Bundeskartellamt (BKartA) and the Australian Competition and...
19 Apr, 2021 EU regulation of AI: What Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics would look like in the real world? By Peter Church Isaac Asimov condensed his framework to regulate robots into three succinct laws. First, a robot may not injure a human or, through...
15 Apr, 2021 International effort to combat online harms: a need to complement, not compete By Jemma Purslow The world is waking up to the risks posed by harmful content online and governments, society and tech firms have all recognised that...
13 Apr, 2021 FCO continues strict approach towards online sales restrictions By Kaan Gürer The German Federal Cartel Office ("FCO") on 12 April 2021 published a press release according to which household appliances manufacturer...
12 Apr, 2021 Wild(ly protective) West? Far (from understood) East? Data security issues continue to divide opinion in the global digital economy By Alex Roberts The interplay of geopolitics and law continue to grab the headlines. This article is a great example. It also suggests that the...
08 Apr, 2021 A rare judgment on a tech dispute - insights from the Co-op v IBM dispute By Linklaters The recent decision in CIS v IBM is an interesting read for anyone involved in the negotiation or litigation of IT contracts. It’s not...
08 Apr, 2021 Back to the (recent) past? The evolution of the EU's Digital Markets Act By William Leslie The European Commission’s publication of its Digital Markets Act proposal to introduce new black and white rules for so-called digital...
07 Apr, 2021 Limitless: unshackled from legal certainty, EU set to review more tech deals By Verity Egerton-Doyle The European Commission’s DG Comp is one of the superpowers of merger control. But until now, its jurisdiction has been largely limited...