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Adtech (part 2) - the ICO says "I see you" Following my last post on the data protection challenges associated with adtech, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced that it is prioritising its review of the adtech sector. Its stern warning to industry participants came in the form of ... Email nirvana, but at what cost? Inbox: zero.  To many this may seem like a dream. I certainly know that with the volume of emails I receive every day, getting my inbox down to zero seems impossible.  However, a Silicon Valley start-up is aiming to achieve that.   For a monthly fee, Supe... UK publishes draft legislation and guidance for digital services tax On the same day as the US begins an investigation into whether the 3% digital services tax (DST) adopted by the French is damaging to US businesses, with a view to taking retaliatory action, the UK publishes for consultation draft legislation and draft gu... UK publishes draft legislation and guidance for digital services tax On the same day as the US begins an investigation into whether the 3% digital services tax (DST) adopted by the French is damaging to US businesses with a view to taking retaliatory action, the UK publishes for consultation draft legislation and draft gui... Slaughter and May's Innovation training programme highly commended We are really pleased that our Innovation training programme was highly commended at this year's Legal Education & Training (LETG) Awards.  Our Innovation and Learning & Development teams have put a huge amount of work into a training programme which focu... Is reputation still king when it comes to a data breach? We always expected the GDPR to be a game changer in terms of raising the risk profile (and reputational impact) of data and cyber breaches, something demonstrated with yesterday’s news of the ICO’s intention to fine BA £183 million for its data breach.  H... Dutch government interprets ECJ's Danish decisions On 14 June 2019, the Dutch government responded to questions raised by members of the Dutch parliament about the impact of the decisions of the ECJ of 26 February 2019. In these decisions, the ECJ essentially held that Member States are under an obligatio... Zoom, Slack, Looker...Enterprise tech cashes in. Is legal tech next? For several months, I had 5-10 calls a week with a Fortune 500 client based in several offices around the world. For each call, I was sent a Zoom invite containing dial-in details. These looked like every other conference call invitation but with a big bo... French Digital Services Tax: final adjustments prior to enactment of the Bill? On 26 June 2019, the Commission Mixte Paritaire, a parliamentary committee composed of an equal number of representatives from the French National Assembly and the French Senate, agreed on the text of the Bill introducing the French Digital Services Tax (... Irish Tax Appeals Commission Decision Relating To a Delaware LLC and Irish Group Loss Relief In a recent decision, concerning claims for group loss relief by Irish subsidiary companies of a Delaware LLC, the Irish Tax Appeals Commission (TAC) found that (i) the LLC parent was a "company" and (ii) adopting a purposive interpretation, the LLC shoul...