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TikTok: Why the ICO fined them £12.7m On 4 April 2023, the ICO fined TikTok Ltd and TikTok Inc £12.7 million for breaching the UK GDPR. This represents over a 50% reduction from the £27m fine included in their September 2022 notice of intent. The ICO’s press release explains this reduction wa... Transparency and generative AI – opening the black box? As generative AI continues to dominate headlines, one aspect that governments and regulators across the world are trying to grapple with is how best to balance the rights of AI developers and IP rights holders. With real-world disputes starting to come be... Blackjack, Poker and… Crypto? All bets are off for the cryptoasset (‘crypto’) industry following publication of the House of Common’s Treasury Committee report on Regulating Crypto last week. The report has hit the headlines in light of the Committee's view that retail trading and inv... Irish DPC Meta (Facebook) data transfers decision: record €1.2 billion GDPR fine and fresh SCC uncertainty for business Today, the Irish Data Protection Commission (Irish DPC) has made public its long-awaited decision on Meta’s EU-US data transfers for its Facebook service. The decision follows the landmark Schrems II CJEU case (which we discussed in this blog at the time)... Generative AI – three golden rules You’ve seen the headlines around generative AI (good and bad), but what three things should your organisation do if it is planning to use (or is already using) this ground breaking technology?  In this blog I look at the need to understand a bit about the... SEPs and FRAND licensing: trending towards transparency? For only the second time in its history, the English High Court has determined FRAND (Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory) terms for a licence of Standard Essential Patents (“SEPs”). In a detailed 225-page judgment, Mellor J set a global FRAND rate fo... Quantum leap? Key takeaways from the National Quantum Strategy With AI, blockchain and other emerging tech stealing recent headlines, quantum technologies have been out of the spotlight. However, the importance and widespread applications of quantum technologies is becoming increasingly apparent. In March of this yea... CMA launches initial review of AI foundation models In a bid to showcase its proactivity regarding the rising adoption of AI, the UK Competition and Markets Authority has recently announced that it would start examining the impact of AI foundation models (including large language models and generative AI) ... Incompatibility of French non-resident capital gains tax with free of movement of capital confirmed for the past and potentially for the future! In a decision dated 20 October 2020, previously covered on this blog, the Administrative Court of Appeal of Versailles had ruled that the French capital gains tax applicable to non-French resident corporate sellers on the transfer of a significant shareho... The French Administrative Supreme Court provides clarifications on the French CFC regime in a non-EU context In a decision dated 25 April 2022, the French Administrative Supreme Court has provided useful clarifications on the French CFC regime (art. 209 B of the FTC) in a non-EU context. Although it relates to the French CFC regime in its version applicable in 2...