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Same Warnings. Same Threats. Bigger Consequences… Increase in highly and nationally significant cyber-attacks in 2025, NCSC announces. It feels like we cannot go more than a couple of weeks without news of a cyber attack hitting the headlines. With household names such as Marks and Spencer’s, the Co-op Group and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) all falling victim to incidents this year, you could... Can Brussels change? One year after Draghi – the EU's Digital Simplification Package On 16 September 2025, almost a year after the European Commission published the landmark Draghi Report on lagging European competitiveness, the Commission opened a call for views on its upcoming “Digital Package on Simplification". In poignant timing, on ... The fair necessities: Part 2 - UK price transparency rules revamped On 22 September, the UK government published guidance on its latest round of amendments to the Price Marking Order 2004 (“PMO”), which are due to take effect from 6 April 2026. The proposed updates to the PMO represent yet another set of regulatory reform... London calling: Lessons on the GDPR’s global reach from the Upper Tribunal (ICO v Clearview) Earlier this month, the Upper Tribunal (UT) delivered its decision, in the latest instalment of the long-running attempt by the ICO to sanction facial-recognition database provider Clearview AI Incorporated (Clearview) for data protection failings. This d... UK and EU ramp up online safety enforcement: Ofcom issues first OSA fine as Commission probes child protection under DSA Online safety matters continue to make headlines in the UK and EU, with Ofcom this week providing an update on its recent enforcement activity under the Online Safety Act (the OSA), and the European Commission (the Commission) launching investigative acti... Financial institutions, are you ready! Preparing for stablecoins Some traditional financial institutions (tradfi) are developing digital assets strategies, while others have been waiting to see how use cases for these assets emerge. That is now changing fast. The US GENIUS Act, enacted in July 2025, will underpin incre... Copyright infringement risks in training Generative AI The launch of ChatGPT in 2022 sparked a surge in both the popularity of, and investment in, generative AI technologies.  Fast forward three years and, as the technology has advanced, so too has the sophistication of the debate surrounding its use and deve... Ticketmaster changes pricing practices following CMA investigation On 25 September 2025, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that Ticketmaster has agreed to legally binding undertakings designed to improve transparency in its ticket sales processes. The undertakings stem from the CMA’s investigation int... Civil and criminal investigations by HMRC: Drawing the line So far, our blog post series on tax disputes in the UK has focussed generally on enquiries and appeals processes. Here, we focus on HMRC's civil and criminal processes for the investigation of the most serious forms of tax non-compliance, including fraud.... French Digital Services Tax: a French Tribunal rules in favor of the taxpayer on the concept of economically independent services from the taxable digital service The Administrative Tribunal of Cergy-Pontoise issued the first decision on the merits concerning the application of the French Digital Services Tax (DST) on 23 September 2025. This decision, favourable to the taxpayer, gives an example of what it means fo...