Digital Regulation Hub

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Guest blog: Michelle Levin, Head of Privacy at Onfido looks ahead at the role of privacy in upcoming legislative and regulatory changes for digital services across the world.

Guest blog: Nick Evans, Chief Operating Officer at Lockular highlights how the importance of securing data privacy by restricting its use to intended purposes and with an irrefutable record of when and how it has been used.

Guest blog: Maria Palmieri, Senior Public Policy Manager at Cloudflare writes about they are helping businesses to navigate an increasingly complex regulatory environment for data protection compliance.

The Bill strikes a sensible balance between reform and upholding a high standard of data protection rights but could go further in seeking the full benefits of data driven innovation.

Read our summary and analysis of the Government’s response to the ‘Data: a new direction’ consultation and what it means for the UK tech sector.

techUK sets out four broad principles to deliver a successful pro-competition regime for digital markets

Guest blog by Drew Smith, Government Relations Manager, UK & Ireland at Zoom Video Communications.

The Digital Strategy provides a strong analysis of the key contemporary challenges that face UK tech, as well as a summary of current Government action. However, it misses an opportunity to set out a longer-term vision.

Read here our summary of the Government's response to the consultation for a new pro competition regime for digital markets.

Following its Benefits of Brexit Policy Paper and the Plan for Digital Regulation the UK Government's Post Brexit approach to regulating the digital economy is taking shape

Catch-up with all of the discussion and insights from techUK's recent event 'Competition in digital markets: How should the Government implement the new regime?' with speakers including John Penrose MP and Will Hayter, CMA.

Amendments have been presented by MPs that introduce expanded senior management liability provisions to the Online Safety Bill

The Online Safety Bill needs serious review to ensure it delivers for all internet users. The new Prime Minister has the opportunity to simplify the Bill and ensure that it achieves its objectives and makes the UK the safest place to be online.

The Government has published the final Online Safety Bill following years of consultation and a detailed pre-legislative scrutiny process that resulted in a long list of recommendations from parliamentarians to improve the draft Bill.

Georgina Kon and Peter Church from Linklaters LLP consider Ofcom's approach to the VSP regime and how this may provide insight into how it might regulate the broader online safety regime.

Guest blog: Ben Packer (Partner) and Jemma Purslow (Managing Associate), Linklaters, discuss key takeaways from the draft Online Safety Bill and why services should act now to be ready for compliance.

techUK is pleased to support #SaferInternetDay2022 which is celebrating with the theme ‘All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online’

At techUK’s ‘Preventing and detecting fraud – the role of technology’ webinar industry experts addressed the fraud prevention and detection challenges faced by banking and financial institutions.

Guest blog: Jeremy Lilley, UK Government Affairs Manager at RELX explores how reform to the UK data protection regime could help businesses tackle financial crime.

As online experiences become more sophisticated for consumers, so do fraudsters. How can data be used to help?

techUK co-chairs the Online Fraud Steering Group (OFSG) and as part of our ongoing efforts to combat fraud, OFSG members Meta, Microsoft and Twitter are committing to introduce a revised advertising onboarding process that requires UK regulated financial services to be authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority prior to serving financial services adverts on their sites.

Catch-up with all of the discussion and insights from techUK's recent event 'Digital Identity and Fraud Prevention' from the #DigitalID2021 event series.

techUK is working in partnership with UK Finance and the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) to open cross-sector dialogues and form tangible solutions which reduce the threat of financial fraud.