In September 2019, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the tech giant’s plans to develop its own draft legislation to regulate facial recognition technology. Amazon hopes to pitch this to lawmakers and for them to adopt its as many of its suggestions as possible.
Law firms are accelerating their digital transformation through training programmes, incubators and client secondments to stay ahead of the game.
The High Court rules that automatic email signature can be treated as if signed by hand.
London has overtaken New York and surpassed San Francisco to steal the global fintech investment crown. The capital now ranks number one for total number of deals secured according to industry body Innovate Finance.
The French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, said France will block the development of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency in Europe until the concerns over the risk to consumers and the government’s monetary sovereignty were addressed.
University researchers’ efforts with 5G now allow data to be transmitted to a driverless car nearly 40 times faster than what fixed-line broadband speeds would allow.
Anthony Levandowski (a former engineer at Google) has been charged with 33 counts of attempted theft of trade secrets.
The Federal Trade Commission recently fined YouTube a record $170 million for targeting adverts at children after illegally harvesting their personal information.
Facebook and Google are facing investigations in the US for breaching antitrust laws. The new investigations are indicative of a trend of growing scrutiny of big tech firms in the US.
The Law Commission has stated that electronic signatures have legal force to execute contracts, as long as the usual rules and formalities are met.