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The Automated Vehicles Act 2024 becomes law in the UK On 20 May 2024 the UK passed the Automated Vehicles Act 2024 (“the Act”). With regulation widely seen as one of the primary hurdles to the adoption of self-driving vehicles, the Act marks a major step towards breaking down this barrier by creating a compr... Challenging dawn raids in the UK HMRC raided the London offices of a global financial brokerage business and the home of a former employee on 28 September 2022, following requests for assistance from Germany and Denmark for criminal investigations in respect of cum-ex trades. The busines... Equality in AI: The EHRC’s Updated Approach to Regulating AI in the Workplace As the potential for AI technologies to transform the workplace comes into ever greater focus, and as the capabilities of those technologies continues its rapid advance, concerns over the potential threat to workers’ rights and the challenges of regulatin... Ofcom Publishes Strategic Approach to AI Ofcom has published its strategic approach to AI 2024/2025 setting out how the communications regulator plans to approach AI in the sectors it regulates, including fixed and mobile telecoms, TV and radio broadcasting, on-demand services, video sharing pla... EU AI Act to become law this summer The final vote on the EU AI Act was passed yesterday (21st May), clearing the way for the Act to come into effect this summer.  While political agreement was reached in December (see blog) further work was needed to finalise the details before the Europea... Cyber threats evolving as a result of new technologies, warns ICO Cyber attacks are happening more frequently and will become increasingly sophisticated thanks to new technologies– organisations need to react accordingly.  This was the message from the ICO in their report entitled “Learning from the mistakes of others” ... Tax Disputes Podcast – Nigeria Our “trip” through tax disputes landscapes around the world is sadly nearing its end (and by “trip”, I mean a six-part podcast series on tax disputes in G20 countries across six continents). This stop in Nigeria marks the penultimate episode in the series... Smarter regulation? Data privacy impact of the Government’s deregulation agenda On 16 May 2024, the UK Government released a White Paper on “Smarter Regulation: Delivering a regulatory environment for innovation, investment and growth”. The White Paper is the Government’s full formal response to the 2023 Call for evidence “Smarter Re... ICO looks at individuals’ rights in GenAI The fourth chapter of the ICO’s s series consulting on GenAI focusses on individuals’ rights and how to engineer these into GenAI models. The chapter does not consider the right to rectification as this was covered in a previous chapter (see our blog) or ... ANNd here we go: UK IPO releases its updated guidelines for examining patent applications relating to AI Last week, the UK IPO released its updated guidelines for examining patent applications relating to AI. This hotly anticipated re-release follows a temporary period of suspension of the guidelines after the High Court’s decision in Emotional Perception AI...