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No fine too small: ICO fines Mermaids £25,000 for personal data breach Last week, the ICO fined the charity Mermaids £25,000 for failure to implement an appropriate level of organisational and technical security measures, in contravention of its obligations under Articles 5(1)(f) and 32(1) and (2) of the UK GDPR. While this...
Delivering the European Green Deal The European Commission has adopted a package of measures intended to put the EU firmly on the road to climate neutrality by 2050 with the intermediate step of a minimum 55% reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. An overhaul of the EU...
'You're hot then you're cold, you're yes then you're no': is the UPC back on (again)? Katy Perry and patent law might not seem to be obvious bedfellows.  However, the lyrics to her hit song Hot n Cold do capture rather well the turbulent nature and recent drama of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Unitary Patent (UP) project. The build up...
European Commission to update supply agreement rules for digital era The European Commission has published its draft updated rules on supply agreements, namely the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER) and the accompanying Vertical Guidelines. In September, the Commission found that the market had changed...
French tax allowance for corporate equity: an aborted initiative The context In France, like in many other countries, debt financing will often be preferred by businesses as it generates, subject to certain conditions and limits, tax deductible financial expenses, instead of non-deductible dividends, had equity...
‘Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio’: should online radio be built on rock n roll? Internet radio has come a long way since Starship’s hit song ‘We Built This City’ in 1985.  Rather than be confined by digital file formats and software reliability, one can now almost access online content anywhere in the world instantaneously.  But...
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 capital...
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 inquiry into...
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 pointing out...
Taxpayers face difficult choices in seeking resolution for international tax disputes Multinational companies increasingly face situations where two or more countries seek to tax the same profits. Recently enacted and upcoming legislative changes aim to address the perceived undertaxation of multinationals, and to redistribute taxing...