The UK government has been criticised by the House of Lords Select Committee for Democracy and Digital Technologies for the delay to new legislation to prevent online harms, which may not be in force before late as 2023, or even 2024. The House of Lords report details the extensive spread...

This new UK data protection regime, coupled with the UK's departure from the EU, requires UK, EU and international businesses to take steps to ensure they remain compliant with the two separate data protection regimes which now exist: EU GDPR and UK GDPR. It is easy to think that data...

For an overview of why this matters to businesses, see our introductory article here. In this Insight, we look at each of the different elements in turn in a bit more detail. Supplementary measures The EDPB draft recommendations are designed to help data exporters with the complex tasks of assessing...

In his recent keynote speech during the London International Disputes Week, Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Litigation in England and Wales, discussed the advantages of online dispute resolution and referred to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and smart programming "to suggest resolutions (not...

We are very excited to release our metaverse report, in collaboration with our partners at Newzoo, the international consultancy for games and esports analytics and market research. Read the full report What is the metaverse? This is by no means a simple question. In sci-fi literature it is referred to...

In the summer of 2021, the European Commission proposed reforms to the General Product Safety Directive with the introduction of the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR). The GPSR provides significant and far-reaching reforms which increase the compliance obligations on businesses involved in product supply chains. The GPSR also addresses new...

Lawmakers as digital eco-warriors Expect new tech-specific environmental legislation. Climate change has become a major business issue, and it is not just environmental activists driving the agenda. Increasingly, lawmakers are forcing the pace and we expect growing legislative focus internationally on the environmental impact of technology (notwithstanding that technology can...

Data is the fuel for data-driven business models, and the European Commission intends to provide this fuel. The Commission’s proposal for an EU Data Act has now been officially presented (23 February 2022) as part of the European Data Strategy, which aims to realise a European single market for data...

The Queen's Speech on 10 May 2022 will set out the government's strategy, revealing which laws it would like to pass. In setting its priorities for the year it is inevitable that some previously-trailed legislative proposals will not feature. While the government does not confirm the contents of the speech...

Digital twins can offer powerful insights into the built environment, including ensuring optimised energy use or enabling visualisations of environmental data.