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A long running competition law case investigating Google’s practices around the Android operating system sees a record fine imposed on Google. In 2018 the EU Commission decided that Google had abused its dominant position ...

The UK IPO has issued a response to its recent consultation on what changes, if any, are required to make intellectual property law work well for new technologies, such as AI. A change to the exemption for text and data mining is proposed.

We review the Information Commissioner's Office guidance on the use of video surveillance - a sensitive area in the data protection arena.

What does the Supreme Court ruling in Lloyd v Google mean for data controllers?

Innovators developing new technologies have plenty to think about, and maintaining secrecy is not always top of the list. However, a recent case (Claydon Yield-O-Meter v Mzuri) shows how important it is to take care over this to avoid losing patent protection altogether...

Simon Elsegood explains how this will change public sector investment to develop the economy, following the UK's departure from the EU...

The EU has adopted final versions of the two adequacy decisions that were issued in draft earlier this year. These permit personal data flows to the UK under the GDPR and the Law Enforcement Directive...

The European Parliament has asked the EU Commission to take another look at the UK's data protection adequacy assessment...

This week the EU Commission published its legislative proposals for regulating artificial intelligence...

Around the world, autonomous vehicles are being developed and tested, different business models and use cases analysed, and connection systems created...

Where an individual is hired to do creative or innovative work, the employer will normally expect to be the owner of their work product...

Currently, transfers of personal data from the EEA to the UK are protected on a transitional basis only until 30 June 2021 under last December's post-Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement. However, the situation after that is currently uncertain...