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Article 08/02/2019
ACCC makes recommendations for privacy law reform
Earlier this week, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (“ACCC”) released its final report for the Digital Platforms Inquiry. The report looks at the impact of digital platforms on consumers, businesses and the media in Australia and recommends reforms to competition and consumer laws, media regulation and privacy law.
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Article 07/23/2019
'Silent cyber' – have you heard it?
Cyber risk insurance is generally available to cover organisations for first-party and third-party financial loss, disruption or damage to reputation resulting from some sort of failure of its technological systems (affirmative cover).
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Article 07/23/2019
London Market Brief July 2019: cyber insights
A roundup of recent cyber related developments, including the black box effect in ship risk profiling, GDPR fines from the ICO, silent cyber risks, cyber threats to the life sciences sector, insuring the emerging offshore digital assets industry and claims transformation in Latin America.
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News 07/22/2019
Autonomous vehicles: Britons lag behind rest of world in support for driverless cars
British people are the least supportive nation in their attitude towards driverless cars, or indeed any form of autonomous vehicle (AV), according to a study across six territories (United Kingdom, United States, Australia, China, Singapore and Hong Kong).
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Article 07/22/2019
Autonomous vehicles - The future of transport: A brave new world?
As one of the largest studies on attitudes towards autonomous vehicles to date, our new report explores public support across the globe and insights from key industry leaders.
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Article 07/18/2019
Why is the Information Commissioner’s Office like the England cricket team?
What a week it has been. England have won the Cricket World Cup, and both Marriott and British Airways have been hit for six by the ICO. It’s fair to say that both the England team and the ICO have upped their game.
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Article 07/16/2019
An overview of cyber legislation in Latin America
A year ago, the Governor of California signed the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 into law. Known as the first comprehensive privacy regime in the United States, the Act imposes on businesses significant privacy obligations, creates a number of privacy rights, and provides for enforcement both through private right of action and regulatory enforcement.
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Article 07/15/2019
Bitcoin is not considered as legal tender
According to published definitions, bitcoin is an "electronic currency", "a cryptocurrency", "an innovative payment network and new class of money". In this article, we analyse the first judgement of the Spanish Supreme Court which considers the problem and denies bitcoins character as legal tender.
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Article 07/10/2019
The ICO’s first public demonstration of power and its reverberations through the business community
The ICO has threatened British Airways with a record £183.4 million fine under the GDPR, following a well-publicised Magecart attack last year.
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Article 07/09/2019
Black box effect in ship risk profiling
In ancient times, we bowed to oracles that interpreted the rustling of oak-leaves, the flights of birds or the murmuring of the waters from a sacred spring. Nowadays, corporations resort to the latest state-of-the-art techniques of ‘data science’.