Law & Just Innovation
TL;DR Why IoT + AI is a privacy turning point Signals from lawmakers: Part 1: Do we still have a “reasonable expectation of privacy” in a smart home? The core English action is misuse of private information (a standalone tort grown from breach of confidence). It protects against: Courts apply a two‑stage test: Key tensions Continue reading "IoT, AI and the Shrinking Private Space: What Privacy Law…
TL;DR What do we mean by “consumer IoT”—and why now? The consumer Internet of Things (IoT) covers connected devices that collect and exchange data: smart speakers and thermostats, wearables and fitness trackers, connected cars, and increasingly, technologies that sit on—or even under—our skin. These devices promise convenience, personalization, and performance. But as they become ever Continue…
The EU AI Act has left out the most important area of law that we must harmonise if we want responsible AI to be a reality. I am delighted to share the open access article Can there be responsible AI without AI liability? Incentivizing generative AI safety through ex-post tort liability under the EU AI Continue reading "Can there be responsible AI without AI liability? Incentivizing generative AI…
GenIUS – Italy’s top journal on law, gender, and sexuality – will dedicate a special issue to “Non-binary identities and the law”, edited by Guido Noto La Diega (he/they/lui, University of Stirling) and Alexander Schuster (he/him, University of Verona). GenIUS is a double-blind peer-reviewed fully open access and online-first journal that features publications in Italian, Continue reading "Call…
As y all may know, I m one of many colleagues to be involved in an exciting new publishing venture: Paul Torremans, Irini Stamatoudi, Peter K Yu, and Bernd Justin Jütte (eds), Encyclopaedia of Intellectual Property Law (Edward Elgar 2024) I m happy to share that all 3 of my entries for the Encyclopedia have now been accepted. Continue reading "3 new encyclopedia entries: idea, publishing contract,…
The UK data protection authority the Information Commissioner s Office (ICO) has been consulting stakeholders about the issue of the lawful bases for processing when it comes to personal data processed by Generative AI (GenAI) companies. The ICO seems to be convinced that in many instances OpenAI co won t need to ask people s Continue reading "Can GenAI companies process your data without your…
I am delighted to share that the paper Generative AI, Education, and Copyright Law: An Empirical Study of Policymaking in UK Universities , written with Dr Christof Koolen (KU Leuven) will appear in the AI special issue of the European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR 6/2024). ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, Gemini, and other Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools Continue reading "New…
Inspired by Sir Mark Walport’s Beyond Blockchain report in 2016 Lord Chris Holmes of Richmond spearheaded a follow up report DLT for Public Good in 2017. Since then, a body of evidence has accumulated – EP DLT sandbox for example – including projects Lord Holmes has been directly involved with such as the Reducing Friction in International Trade (RFIT) Continue reading "Distributed Ledger…
The University of Stirling is funding a number of full 3 year full-time equivalent PhD studentships (fees and stipend), fee waivers and cash bursaries available for students from the UK and overseas. These studentships holders will work in collaborative, inter-disciplinary clusters of PhD students and researchers working on complementary doctoral projects within one of our Continue reading "Funded…
Generously funded by the University of Stirling s Faculty of Arts and Humanities, today (Thursday 7th December 2023), I have attended a stakeholder workshop at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s main antitrust and consumer protection regulator and policy-maker. The goal of the 3-hour workshop was to engage stakeholders early on to shape the principles Continue reading…