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ARTICLE · 10 JANUARY 2018

Trends In Information Technology Law: Looking Ahead To 2018

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Unusually as we go into a new year, the main headlines of what IT lawyers can expect in 2018 are signposted at the outset: new financial services laws in January, the GDPR in May and looking ahead to Brexit in March 2019.

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Richard Kemp
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This piece looks ahead to what we might expect as IT law developments in 2018.

Unusually as we go into a new year, the main headlines of what IT lawyers can expect in 2018 are signposted at the outset: new financial services laws in January, the GDPR in May and looking ahead to Brexit in March 2019. But away from the headlines, the developing narrative is more complex. Here, the combination of [mobile+social+cloud] still carries all before it and the machine learning, blockchain and digital reality of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) are quickly gaining traction whilst Moore's Law still chugs away in the background.

What's also fairly clear as we go into 2018, and whether it's bitcoin, AI or tech valuations, is that we're currently at a rather 'frothy' part of the tech hype cycle. As the economist J. M. Keynes famously said, 'markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent' so there's no telling that this will not continue through 2018. But it is

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