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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...

A post-Brexit trade deal was finally pinned down on Christmas Eve. This will provide some comfort to organisations around data flows...

The UK's departure from the EU reaches a new stage at the end of December 2020, with the transition period drawing to an end...

The European Court decision in the Schrems II case earlier this year left data controllers with a huge headache as much of the legal structure for transatlantic data transfers was left in limbo...