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A lawyer’s guide to blockchain

Osborne Clarke’s Mark Taylor helps us to understand the technology behind blockchain, how it’s changing business, and what legal challenges it presents

Aug 6 2018 1:02pm
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Resting in peace? How we need to regulate the industry which thrives on your afterlife

What happens to your Facebook page after you die? Should someone be able to faceswap a photo of you as a corpse and post it on Snapchat?

Jul 17 2018 10:58am
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Protecting data caught in the ‘dragnets’ of Facebook

Future trainee Wilkie Hollens explores why protecting data matters in an era when it’s ‘increasingly likely’ we’ll begin falling in love with our computers

Jul 2 2018 1:38pm
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The final countdown to GDPR compliance begins

Womble Bond Dickinson’s data protection team explains the key points of the big legislative change of 2018

Feb 15 2018 3:15pm
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How young people see the abolition of net neutrality

Free competition between websites is an illusion already

Jan 22 2018 2:29pm
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A digital Wild West: US government rules on funding for new cryptocurrency ventures

Game over?

Sep 14 2017 12:30pm
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Why law might soon be outsourced to computers

We’re at a stage where Amazon Echo is a witness in a murder trial

Jul 28 2017 10:41am
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Voice-activated advertisements: Should we be worried or are they the next big marketing scheme?

Burger King PR genius or criminal actions? Ryan Gaskell speculates in his shortlisted entry to the BARBRI International Cyber Crime Blogging Prize Competition

Jun 26 2017 10:31am
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IT illiteracy and government: how legislators never understood computers

Andras Kirkman-Kovacs, runner-up in the BARBRI International Cyber Crime Blogging Prize Competition, says the government has its work cut out

May 31 2017 12:02pm
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Blockchain: Beyond the Microgrid

The key legal and regulatory issues that will need to be considered before mainstream adoption can be realised

May 3 2017 4:14pm
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Fintech: Can legislation really drive innovation?

Hogan Lovells partner Jon Chertkow on what the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and Open Banking could mean for everyday banking

Apr 4 2017 3:03pm
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Sci-fi nightmare: could law students soon be learning about judgments made by robots?

Finding the limits of AI’s advancement in the English common law

Nov 10 2016 11:05am
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The privacy law storm gripping social media

Don’t trash the e-mails you receive from Facebook

Nov 8 2016 10:05am
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FinTech – exaggerated hopes or justified enthusiasm?

Reed Smith trainee Anne-Marie Trachmann on why we should expect great things

Sep 23 2016 9:58am
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Not if but when: The rise and rise of AI in legal practice

Lawyers being replaced by technology, should we be scared?

Sep 19 2016 11:47am
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Compliance and the robot lawyer: What happens when it all goes wrong?

Who regulates robots?

Mar 24 2016 1:00pm
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