Citizens of the world, your face is being recognised...or not?
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Updated UK guidance on store reopening
In light of the recent announcement that non-essential businesses will be permitted to reopen from 15 June, the UK government has issued...
Will a "Hail Mary" End Criminal Insider Trading?
Gene Levoff, Apple's former Director of Corporate Law and Corporate Secretary, has attacked the foundation of criminal insider trading...
Shifting Supply Chains and Compliance Risks
The COVID-19 emergency has forced companies across the world to make rapid supply chain shifts. While the speed and scope of these...
WIPO PROOF: New Service That Provides Evidence of an Intellectual Asset's Existence
The World Intellectual Property Organization today launched a new online business service, WIPO PROOF, that provides tamper-proof...
Well-being in the workplace - more important now than ever?
Work plays a significant role in most people’s lives – over the course of a lifetime the average Briton will spend 3,507 days at work and...
And the winner of the prize for best legal click bait headline from the NYT so far this year is ...
Any copyright lawyer who did not click on the following NYT headline last week was missing out: "A feud in Wolf-Kink Erotica Raises a...
COVID-19 raises force majeure questions around the world
My colleagues and I in Baker McKenzie's disputes practice have been fielding a steady stream of questions from clients regarding the...
Vulnerable AI systems and trade secrets - is technology moving the goal posts for legal protection?
We all know that computing systems are vulnerable in a variety of different ways - however an emergent issue (of particular relevance to
Anonymity orders and privacy evangelists - Court of Appeal limits the serial pursuit of anonymity
A recent decision of the Court of Appeal (Moss v ICO [2020] EWCA Civ 580) re-iterates that anonymity is not granted lightly.
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UK's Law Commission publishes further insight into the future of automated vehicle legislation
The Law Commission has recently published their analysis of responses to their (second) consultation paper on automated vehicles.
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GDPR's second anniversary - EDPB Chair sets out key challenges ahead
Yesterday, the chair of the European Data Protection Board ("EDPB") published a statement on the second anniversary of the GDPR...
Could an unprecedented “hard Brexit” situation in 2021 follow the unprecedented coronavirus situation of 2020?
As an “unprecedented” 2020 whistles by us at an alarmingly fast pace, it appears increasingly likely that a "hard Brexit" will occur at...
UK sets out its post-Brexit tariffs
This morning (19 May), the UK Government announced a new tariff regime which will replace the EU Common External Tariff ("CET") at the...
Falling Angels: The effects of the COVID-19 crisis on corporate ratings and the implications of a sub-investment downgrade for corporate issuers
An insightful issue of our In the Know newsletter written in collaboration with our leveraged finance colleagues in the US...
Pandemics and Predictive Policing: Face masks might push the Met to put facial recognition on hold
Facial recognition used by law enforcement has attracted an enormous amount of attention from the press and governments around the world,...
Private Markets forced to "pause and prepare"
No question that most of the press activity related to the capital markets has been focused on the public capital markets - the red...
COVID-19 - What Investors May Now Want Public Companies To Disclose
Law360 just published an article by my colleagues Peter Chan, Amy Greer, Jerome Tomas and Kurt Oldenburg analyzing public company...
Public need or private want: a new Covid-era antitrust compliance issue?
There are two ways to interpret the remark below from the head of the Dutch competition authority.
The first is to see this as a...
Managing a team in a crisis
Recommend this article from Mike Yaghmai of Facebook Legal for all those managing a team of lawyers (completely) remotely. His experience...
Record Breaking Loan Default Rates
Both Fitch Ratings and S&P Global Market Intelligence are reporting that default rates are soaring beyond levels seen since 2008 -...
EDPB Publishes 2019 Annual Report, including main objectives for 2020
The European Data Protection Board ("EDPB") published its 2019 annual report on Monday 18 May 2020.
The report provides an overview...
The CMA Needs New Tools
Whilst the CMA is focused on its lack of powers to tackle price gouging in masks and sanitisers, it will not be long before testing kits...
Opportunity in a crisis?
Yet another article looking at the impact of the current crisis on legal innovation. The author notes a battenining down of the hatches...
Digital Services Act should avoid removal of legal content, nine EU countries say
The "D9 + countries" issued a joint statement regarding future work on the EU Digital Services Act. It indicates the need to adapt the...
A new right to work from home?
As the UK government seeks to ease the lockdown restrictions over the coming weeks and months, it's interesting to see they are...
France to force web giants to delete some content within the hour, hate speech within 24 hours
The AVIA law in France has been passed by the French parliament, and is now being passed to the constitutional council. It seems that it...
ICO Releases Guidance on Workplace Testing
The ICO has released its much anticipated guidance on workplace COVID19 testing in the form of FAQs, which can be found here.
The...
IAB Europe extends support for Transparency and Consent Framework v1.1 until 15 August 2020
The Interactive Advertising Bureau ("IAB") Europe's Transparency & Consent Framework ("TCF") steering group has voted to extend...
The "new normal" in the workplace: Temperature checks
As we take steps towards a "new normal", many employers will be thinking through how their workers can safely return to the workplace. A...
New guidance to address privacy concerns around programmatic digital advertising
The Data & Marketing Association (DMA) and British advertisers' industry body ISBA have published ‘The Seven-Step Ad Tech Guide’. The...
Holidays During Furlough: Updated Guidance
The government has just published new guidance on holiday entitlement and pay during the coronavirus pandemic, which can be found here....
European Parliament Group Suggests Amendment of Liability Rules in E-Commerce Directive
The study, commissioned by IMCO, has some interesting thoughts on how the liability provisions in the ECD should be amended, highlighting...
WIPO launches global IP policy tracker
WIPO has launched a free tracker following IP developments in response to COVID: measures taken by national and regional IP offices,...
Trying anything and everything is a risky proposition.
It is unsurprising that most of the press about law firms during the present crisis is focused on cost control and existential risks, so...
What are the new priorities for UK data protection during and after COVID-19?
Many things have changed due to COVID-19, including the priorities of the UK Information Commissioner who recently clarified what she...
COVID-19: the role of trade unions in the return to work
The new government guidance released today on returning to work has stated that employers must carry out a COVID-19 risk assessment in...
UK COVID19 - Sector specific guidance for employers
The government has just issued new sector specific guidance for employers setting out the steps they recommend they take to keep their...
ICO Pauses Investigation into Real Time Bidding and AdTech
The ICO recently announced that due to COVID-19 it is pausing its investigation into real time bidding and the AdTech industry in order...
UK COVID19 Guidance Update: But Has Anything Changed for Employers?
The government released its planned roadmap out of lockdown today. What has changed for employers? The honest answer is - not much!
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