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What legal developments can businesses in the UK expect in 2024?

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 10:53:50 +0000

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Our Knowledge Team looks at what lies ahead for business law

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Health and safety | UK Regulatory Outlook January 2024

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:09:13 +0000

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The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill | Higher risk buildings | Keep mental health of your people on the business agenda

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The UK Online Safety Act: Top 10 takeaways for online service providers

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:41:07 +0000

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What are the key points to be aware of and how will it work in practice?

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UK Online Safety Act: Ofcom launches its first consultation on illegal harms

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:47:37 +0000

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A picture is emerging of how to tackle the illegal harm duties as regulator sets out detailed draft guidance and codes of practice

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Age assurance is focus of European regulatory action for online protection of minors

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 12:01:41 +0000

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What are the requirements and developments around age assurance in Europe and specifically France, Germany and the UK?

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UK's Online Safety Act is a seismic regulatory shift for service providers

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:26:09 +0100

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Implementation raises complex challenges for businesses when navigating both domestic and international legislation

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Singapore consults on guidelines on children and the Personal Data Protection Act

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 11:07:44 +0100

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A fairer approach would be to exclude organisations that expressly do not contract with children, data experts argue

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The UK Online Safety Bill: who is in scope?

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:26:35 +0100

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What are the critical steps providers must take to ensure compliance in this evolving regulatory landscape?

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Singapore passes Online Criminal Harms Act

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:05:08 +0100

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The legislation strengthens Singapore's fight against harmful cyber activity and bad actors using the internet for crime

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Reviewing our UK business law predictions for 2023: how are we doing at the half-way point?

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:56:45 +0100

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We examine how our predictions have turned out in practice, and what to watch out for as autumn draws nearer

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UK Online Safety Bill to have more teeth

Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:31:04 +0000

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New criminal sanctions for senior managers to be introduced by government

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UK business law predictions for 2023

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:39:26 +0000

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As the new year unfolds, we look ahead at what legal developments businesses can expect

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Mobile-gaming advertisements in the UK must play by the rules

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:41:32 +0000

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UK regulator has published advice for advertisers in the mobile-gaming industry on harmful and offensive content

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Commission notified of France's mandatory parental controls on internet devices

Fri, 28 Oct 2022 13:28:55 +0100

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The legislation makes further progress as France looks to protect minors and ease parental blocking of online access

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UK regulators consider online safety and competition in digital markets

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 11:11:56 +0100

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Competition and communications regulators have recently published a joint statement - what does this mean for businesses?

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EU's Digital Service Act to introduce first express ban on 'dark patterns'

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 09:59:20 +0100

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Definition of dark patterns sheds light on concerns including exiting subscriptions easily while raising applicability questions

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Consumer law | Regulatory Outlook July 2022

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:06:48 +0100

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European Parliament adopts the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act | Changes to UK Online Safety Bill | Online safety: Ofcom's roadmap to regulation

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EU gets one step closer to adopting the Digital Services Act

Mon, 16 May 2022 16:01:58 +0100

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New regulation of digital services expected to come into force for all businesses in late 2023

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Government introduces Online Safety Bill in Parliament and announces Online Advertising Programme consultation

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:32:27 +0000

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Following a steady trickle of announcements of changes to the draft Bill, the government has introduced the Online Safety Bill to Parliament, hot on the heels of the recent announcement that the long-delayed consultation on the regulation of online advertising is now open

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Online Safety Bill: changes to watch out for

Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:35:04 +0000

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Potential amendments could mean that the Bill is about to get even more complex and controversial

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Digitalisation | Five legal and regulatory predictions for 2022

Fri, 07 Jan 2022 12:01:25 +0000

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As another year gets underway, and digitalisation continues to transform businesses across all sectors, we offer five predictions for tech law and regulation around the world in the year ahead

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Online Safety Bill: Parliament and DCMS proceed with separate scrutiny and inquiry into the draft online safety law

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 17:19:59 +0100

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Parliamentary committee indicates timing of pre-legislative scrutiny as the government's digital and culture department launches probe into content of the Bill

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OSB in focus: will the Online Safety Bill increase the scope for actions brought by individuals against online platforms?

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 12:28:04 +0100

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Draft legislation designed to make the UK the safest place to be online (while defending freedom of expression) requires difficult decisions from regulated services that could turn aggrieved users to litigation

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OSB in focus: is the Online Safety Bill a skeleton or a springboard for dynamic regulation?

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 12:39:23 +0100

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The UK's draft online safety legislation contains a range of powers for ministers to be able to change aspects of the regulatory regime in the future with limited scrutiny

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OSB in focus: what categories of content and communications are within the Online Safety Bill's scope?

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:30:25 +0100

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The threat of big fines on annual global turnover means that it is crucial that online services understand the nature and categories of content that can be encountered on their platforms

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