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In today's digital era, having an online presence for a business is a critical requirement.

With the ever increasing level of smartphone penetration, the development of mobile e-commerce and the ubiquity of the internet's role in daily life, this new phase of internet development has the potential to change user behaviour forever and start a tradermark owner revolution.

With the upcoming delegation of new generic Top Level Domains, trade mark owners should consider taking pre-emptive steps to prevent domain name squatters.

In the fourth and penultimate article of our mini-series ‘A Practitioners Guide to IT Outsourcing', Rhiannon Monahan, an Associate Director within our Governance and Consulting Services Group...

More and more industries, from accountancy firms to zoological societies, are adopting cloud computing services. Every day, millions of users are accessing online cloud services such as Apple iCloud, Gmail and Dropbox across desktop and mobile devices.

As part of a planned revision of the Audio Visual Media Services ("AVMS") Directive (2010/13/EU), the European Commission has proposed to regulate 'video-sharing platforms' for the first time.

The Article 29 Working Party, supported by data protection authorities and other national regulators, recently undertook an EU-wide ‘cookie sweep’.

Following the publication of Regulation (EU) 2018/302 (the "Regulation") in February 2018, new rules to prevent geo-blocking will apply throughout the EU from Monday, 3 December 2018.

The English Court of Appeal tackled the rather technical legal question of whether a common law lien could be exercised over an electronic database.

The European Commission has issued interpretive guidelines on Article 50 of the AI Act, clarifying transparency obligations for emotion recognition systems, biometric categorization, and deepfake content.

The European Union has reached a political agreement to amend the AI Act, introducing targeted changes aimed at simplifying compliance requirements for businesses while maintaining protective standards.

Over the last few years, the Internet of Things – known as the IoT – has taken the technology sector by storm.

In a recent speech, the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) spoke to the CBI's 2021 regulatory and supervisory priorities for governance and risk management; areas likely to be of...

In recent weeks, the Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) announced its participation in the Global Privacy Enforcement Network's (GPEN) annual privacy ‘sweep'.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Case C-376/22, Google Ireland v KommAustria has confirmed that EU member states may not subject online platforms established in another member...

In this three-part series of posts, we bring you a checklist of questions to help you tackle the challenge of website legal compliance.

Nearly every business has a website, whether just for information purposes or for selling goods or services.