On 7 October 2022, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has posted a news alert regarding the risks from use of biometric technologies. The alert provides a warning that the ICO views the use of certain emotional analysis technologies as more risky than traditional biometric technologies. This is because the ICO does not deem the current…
Recently the European Union set in motion what may become a very significant overhaul of how litigation funding functions across all member states. In a report written by German MEP Alex Voss of the EU parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee, a case was made for the EU to make a concerted effort to avoid the fostering…
It has traditionally been difficult for the CMA to assess and understand the entry and dynamic competition in technology markets. Looking at potential evolution of markets and dynamic competition if often simply hard to do through lack of knowledge and evidence. In the Meta /Giphy case the CMA has, assessed the supply side and “Timely…
President Biden signed an Executive Order on “Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities” (“Executive Order”) on 7 October 2022. In conjunction with the regulations issued by the US Attorney General to establish a Data Protection Review Court (“DPRC”), the Executive Order implements into US law the agreement in principle revealed by President Biden…
The UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), has issued a “notice of intent” to Tiktok. This notice is a precursor to imposing a potential £27 million fine, following an investigation conducted by the ICO which found that TikTok may have breached data protection law between May 2018 and July 2020. The maximum…
On the 14th of September 2022 the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gave the annual state-of-the-EU speech, followed by the traditional publishing of the State of the Union Letter of Intent 2022 (which can be found here). The speech largely considered the geopolitical landscape, focusing on the Russia, Ukraine and the European reactions…
On the 14th of September 2022, the European General Court (“EGC”) delivered its judgement on Google’s antitrust case. The EGC largely upheld the European Commission’s (“EC”) 2018 ruling to impose an antitrust fine on Google, but with a slight reduction of the fine from €4.343bn to €4.125bn to “better reflect the gravity and duration of the…
In 2019, the US and UK governments signed the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on Access to Electronic Data for the Purpose of Countering Serious Crime (“Data Access Agreement” / “DAA”), which will come into force on…
The judgment discussed below rendered two provisions of the Model Articles as inconsistent. Decisions made by a sole director of a company using the Model Articles may therefore be invalid or void. This means that sole directors of companies incorporated under the Model Articles should amend the Model Articles before incorporating them into their Articles…
