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The EU's "Digital Single Market" strategy has been boosted by an agreement to remove requirements for non-personal data to ...

You would be forgiven for uttering a very long string of properly ripe expletives on learning that the current UK government has the chee...

Recent issues concerning the purchase of lethal materials online, "fake news" and secure messaging highlight a growing tension ...

It all seemed to be going so smoothly for US policy-makers when the gathering of the EU's privacy regulators (the Article 29 Working ...

I was at a 'parliamentary roundtable' on Tuesday on the perennial topic of small business banking reform. A more official report ...

A slightly dispiriting day at The Alan Turing Institute 'Financial Summit', yesterday, I'm afraid to say.  The ATI itsel...

So many highlights from the past few days at the SCL's Technology Law Futures Conference on 'Keeping Humans at the Heart of Tech...

Some sobering figures from the European Commission for single market fantasists enthusiasts (as if Greece wasn't sobering enough)....

Professor Nick Bostrom delivered an inspirational speech for the SCL last night on "Superintelligence: a godsend or a doomsday devic...

I've been a bit absent from these pages of late, partly pulling together SCL's Technology Law Futures Conference in June on '...

One of the 'good news' items in last year's Autumn Statement was the endorsement of an Open Data Institute report on how i...

Nine months after Google's Chairman, Eric Schmidt, used his speech at Davos to declare war on the human race , he and the other  Big ...

The Society for Computers and Law was recently entertained on the topic of trust in Big Data and the Cloud , by Paul Nemitz, European Com...

Source: Financial Times Like Google's declaration of war on the human race , the news that Twitter will buy Gnip illustrates why s...

Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt finally admitted yesterday something that the likes of Jaron Lanier have been warning us about for some ...