How platforms must adapt: key takeaways from CMA’s investigation into Amazon
CMA’s investigation into Amazon sheds light on steps platforms must take to comply with new laws on consumer reviews.
CMA’s investigation into Amazon sheds light on steps platforms must take to comply with new laws on consumer reviews.
Access to certain apps and services often depends on the user's age, raising the important issue of 'age assurance.' How can we assess or verify a user's age while complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?
In this blog we take a look at the key steps to consider for integrating Generative AI in the workplace.
The UK Government’s AI and copyright consultation closed on 25 February. We explore what this could mean for the future of UK copyright law.
The Court of Appeal in Canada has recently resolved a dispute about the meaning of the thumbs up emoji, upholding the first instance decision by the King’s Bench for Saskatchewan.
In December 2024. the BBC’s Global Misinformation Unit published an article claiming that Steven Bartlett is amplifying harmful health claims on his podcast. The BBC’s analysis of 15 health-related episodes apparently uncovered an average of 14 harmful health claims.
In the run-up to Christmas, it was widely reported that Google’s Willow computer chip had completed a standard benchmarking test that would take today’s best supercomputers 1025 years. Willow finished the test in five minutes.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is concerned that dark patterns (also referred to as online choice architecture) may sometimes breach consumer protection law.
The Government’s new Employment Rights Bill is expected to put further pressure on the employment tribunal system, and in turn, place additional pressure on an organisation’s subject access request (SAR) process. The Deputy Prime Minister has said that the proposed removal of the two-year qualifying period for unfair dismissal claims is expected to result in almost 9 million employees benefitting from protection from day one.
Jessica Burt is joined by Zickie Lim, a corporate partner who leads our venture capital and investment team, to discuss the investment landscape in this innovative sector.
Behavioural advertising continues to be an area of scrutiny by data protection authorities in the EU and UK, particularly in relation to the legal basis that controllers rely upon in order to conduct the processing. Unsurprisingly, Meta continues to be the focus of that scrutiny.
In our blog series so far, we’ve looked at basic know how around automated decision making in recruitment and vendor risk management. In this last blog of the series, we’ll cover some of the more finite data protection provisions that organisations will need to consider when onboarding automation into a recruitment process.