Cloud computing service providers, even those based outside Europe, may become subject to the EU Data Protection Directive's extensive and complex regime purely through their customers' choices, of which they may have no knowledge or control. We consider the definition and application of the EU...

In this document, we respond to the “Digital Assets: Consultation Paper” of the Law Commission of England and Wales. We welcome the Law Commission’s proposal to treat crypto-tokens as a new, third category of property. However, in our view, the proposal fails to provide sufficient legal...

In this document, we respond to the “Digital Assets and Private Law Public Consultation” (‘Consultation’) of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (‘UNIDROIT’). In its Consultation, UNIDROIT proposes a series of principles on digital assets and private law...

There has been on-going discussion regarding the alignment of cloud computing services to a range of European policy objectives. This paper provides an outline of key legal and regulatory aspects arising from recent calls for establishing a Europe-only cloud. After covering the background to...

In part one of this series, we considered what information is regulated as 'personal data' in the cloud. In this part two, we develop further the argument made in part one that it is not appropriate for infrastructure cloud providers, many of which are based outside Europe, to become subject...

This article sets out the current regulatory framework within which the radiocommunication spectrum is managed at both international and national levels, with particular reference to the UK, prior to considering certain legal implications of reforms which have been proposed. Due to the...