Regulating Digital
Welcome to the Slaughter and May Regulating Digital Hub. We bring you insight covering the changing landscape and competing interests around data, big data, competition and regulation,.
Explore the different publications, podcasts and videos on regulating digital:
Insights - access our latest thinking
Webinar - discussion on digital regulation
Podcast series - listen to digital experts
Insights
Here you will find our latest legal briefings, thought leadership and publications from our digital blog ‘The Lens: Digital developments in focus’:
WEBINAR: REGULATING DIGITAL
On 25 February 2021 we hosted a panel of digital specialists who shared insight on the current digital regulation landscape. Below you can hear from Paddy McGuiness OBE, Senior Advisor at Brunswick, Richard Sargeant, Chief Operating Officer of Faculty and CDEI board member, Ella van den Brink, Senior Competition Counsel at Google, Andrea Ruggieri, Vice President, Digital and Privacy Legal at GSK, Jordan Ellison, Partner - Competition and Rob Sumroy, Partner - Technology and Data at Slaughter and May.
INTRODUCTION
CAN DIGITAL AND DATA REGULATION REDUCE DISCRIMINATION?
COULD INCREASED REGULATION HAVE A DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON DIGITAL?
IS NEW REGULATION IN THE DIGITAL SECTOR POSITIVE FOR INNOVATION?
PREDICTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
PODCAST sERIES
Podcast 1: Competition and privacy - the best of frenemies?
13 January 2021
In the first podcast of our Regulating Digital series, Ariel Ezrachi (Professor of Competition Law at the University of Oxford) and Jordan Ellison (Competition Partner at Slaughter and May) discuss the relationship between privacy and competition considerations, and debate whether the GDPR is anticompetitive.
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Podcast 2: How can we regulate data in an increasingly digital world?
27 January 2021
In this podcast Richard Sargeant (COO of Faculty, a leading applied AI company, and a board member of the UK’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation) and Rob Sumroy (Head of Technology Group and co-head of Global Privacy) discuss the use, ownership and regulation of data in an increasingly digital world, what blockers and value drivers exist for businesses wanting to innovate in this area and how issues around IP ownership and open data, and the UK’s national data strategy, impact these discussions.
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Podcast 3: Can privacy laws enhance digital innovation?
10 February 2021
In our third and final podcast Natalie Donovan interviews Rob Sumroy and Duncan Blaikie about whether our current privacy rules are fit-for-purpose in an increasingly digital age, whether the ICO is doing enough to encourage innovation in the digital space and how, in practice, businesses can innovate in a privacy compliant way.
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