Brexit was not such a good idea, after all.
Month: October 2016
Russian Court Decrees LinkedIn Blocked in Russia for Non-Compliance with Data Localization Law
You may have read in one of my previous posts that Russia required social networks to save persona data related to Russian users on servers within Russian boundaries.
Well, the Russian data protection authority (“Roskomnadzor”) is blocking Linkedin and has a hearing for the appeal set for 10th November 2016.
Most UK businesses don’t understand fair contract laws, research finds
A research run in U.K. shows that 54% of business don’t hold a basic understanding of which legal terms are and aren’t allowed in contracts with customers + 85% are totally unfamiliar with the Consumer rights act 2015.
Robot ‘judge’ with ability to predict trial outcomes developed at UCL
79% of right guesses on 584 cases before the EUCJ.
SEC Proposes Rules to Require the Use of Universal Proxies Universal Proxy Cards Would Allow Shareholders to Vote by Proxy for Both Registrant and Dissident Director Nominees on a Single Proxy C ard in a Proxy Contest
further step to avoid personal physical presence at sharheolder’s meetings.
Uber loses right to classify UK drivers as self-employed
Liberal and capitalistic UK gives a low blow to UBER.
This new ruling will implicate payment of retirement contributions, health insurance, overtime, minimum wage and holiday pay to name a few.
This blow comes after Khan (the new London mayor) imposed all taxi dirvers to pass a written Engllish language test.
On the self-employment thread, the government ‘s best guess is that arounf 460k people are falsely delcared as self-employed, thus dodging around £314m yearly in taxes and has hence launched a six-months programme to review labouring practises in UK.
Current average hourly pay is 5£ per hour (against the minimum salary is 7,5£ per hour in UK).
What did Uber say? That it’s not a transport company (wait, didn’t they just developed self-driving cars and trucks to transport people and goods?) but an IT Company.The judges slammed them down for deploying “fictions in its documentation, twisted language and even brand new terminology”.
If you are a start-up fancily matching demand and offer for human labour but denying employment relationship, please re-consider your busines model.
The Driverless Future
How should driverless cars be regulated? What will be the main challenges for the regulators?
Breaking Up With Ashley Madison: Limits on Retaining Information About Past Users
To those who believe he right to be forgotten is only a French thing.
Canadian and Australian law both provide for it; in Ashley Madison’s case, a user who does not log in for several months should be considered as to be deleted and its personal data should not be deleted only upon payment of a fee.
Cyber insurance coverage levels on the rise
In the past 6 months, nealry 40% of policyholders increased their coverage. Is cyber-awareness on the rise?
Yahoo’s breach docet.
Privacy group launches legal challenge against EU-U.S. data pact
Data Rights Ireland triggered litigation for lack of sufficient protection
Legal Archive of Marco De Roni 