Digital TMT and Sourcing Notes

EU proposal to the WTO on modernising e-commerce rules

Data Assets: Protecting and Driving Value in a Digital Age

Latest twist in the Morrisons Case: Supreme Court grants Morrisons permission to appeal

On 15 April 2019, the Supreme Court granted supermarket chain Morrisons permission to appeal against the Court of Appeal ruling that it was vicariously …

ICO framework for AI proposed to help support innovative use of this emerging technology

The internet, to regulate or not to regulate? House of Lords calls for new digital regulator

The European Parliament votes in the EU Copyright Directive including controversial Articles 11 and 13

Clarification on the status of the EU-US Privacy Shield on a no deal Brexit

Brexit, Data, Brexit

The German FCO/Facebook decision: implications for data privacy regulation

The German competition authority, the Federal Cartel Office ("FCO") last week announced the results of its investigation into Facebook for a novel abuse …

Japan Adequacy Decision Adopted by the EU Commission

On 23 January 2019, the EU Commission adopted a decision confirming the adequacy of Japanese data protection laws for the purpose of transferring …

Digital TMT and Sourcing Predictions 2019

  2018 was a landmark year for digital TMT and sourcing. Against the backdrop of the UK's impending departure from the EU, there were a wealth of …

Data Protection Predictions 2019

2018 was a landmark year for data protection and privacy; the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") came into effect on 25 May 2018 …