Bird & Bird has developed a practical guide to the key regulatory developments.
The UK's approach to digital regulation spans a wide spectrum of areas, including data privacy, cybersecurity, online safety, AI, and competition within various sectors. The UK has made significant efforts to create a secure and thriving digital environment, resulting in the development of a diverse range of legislative and regulatory measures. With so many different regulations emerging in this area, what should you pay attention to?
Within this guide, we will help you navigate through the latest developments in digital regulation in ten key areas, explain their relevance to your circumstance and outline the steps that are being undertaken.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is already reshaping our society and our economy.
The financial regulatory environment in the UK in relation to cryptoassets is in the process of significant change.
An initial flurry of activity in the cybersecurity space in the UK has left the industry at a pause in anticipation of more concrete and updated legislation
Although the focus on data in the EU has been coined Europe’s “Digital Decade”, it is important to understand that similar motivation, attention and policies can be seen across UK regulators.
On 24 May 2024, the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Act (“Act”) received royal assent.
The introduction of administrative fines available to regulators in the UK, EU member states and Australia.
The UK Government has been developing the UK digital identity and attributes trust framework (“UK DIATF”)
New technologies are having an impact on the ePrivacy space with communication providers offering new and innovative services and existing legislation falling behind these new capabilities.
The Online Safety Act seeks to regulate online providers of user-to-user content and search, as well as providers of pornography
Strengthened telecoms security measures have been adopted and telecoms providers must take steps to ensure compliance.
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