Tom Bridgwater and Melissa Chung look a recent UKIPO decision which point to a new approach to patentability of computer ...

The European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education adopted a report last month in which they said that companies should guarantee that the use of social media and the digital environment is ...

The European Commission has set out two sets of binding specification measures to Google under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The aim of the first set of measures is to make sure that Google’s ...

The European Commission has fined AliExpress €550 million, following breaches of its obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA) to assess and mitigate risks related to the sale of illegal, ...

In the last year, age checks have been deployed at a greater scale than ever, but Ofcom has emphasised the need for further action to strengthen protections for children across the system.  It ...

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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an investigation into Microsoft following concerns that customers may not have been given clear information upfront about subscription options ...

SCL Annual Data Protection Conference – Thursday 5 February 2026 Sessions: Balancing Innovation and Risk: Navigating the current state of play of cross-sector data protection (DP), AI and biometrics ...

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Camilo Artiga-Purcell, General Counsel at Kiteworks, identifies some of the ever-increasing risks and potential consequences of rushing to use AI in legal practice Picture a partner at a leading UK ...

SCL has previously reported on examples of lawyers in the USA using AI to generate case references for court proceedings, and then discovering that the AI had “hallucinated” the cases, which didn’t ...

The European Commission has fined Meta €797.72 million for breaching EU antitrust rules by tying its online classified ads service Facebook Marketplace to its personal social network Facebook and by ...