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Welcome to our latest round-up of legal and non-legal tech-related news stories. This edition covers recent advertising standards activity, electronic execution of documents, smart contracts, crypto scams, and much more.

Welcome to our latest round-up of legal and non-legal tech-related news stories. This edition covers court guidance on low value data breach claims, HMRC’s seizing of NFTs, the Super Bowl advert that “broke the Internet”, and much more.

Welcome to our latest round-up of legal and non-legal tech-related news stories. This edition covers an important development on international data transfers, regulation of automated vehicles and Spotify under the spotlight.

Happy New Year and welcome to our first Technology & Digital round-up of 2022. This edition covers cryptoassets, data fines, cloud services, smart supermarkets, cyber security, the metaverse and much more.

Specialists from our Technology & Digital Group give a flavour of developments to look out for in 2022 covering smart contracts and NFTs, data protection and e-privacy reform, increased scrutiny of Big Tech, the digital supply chain, and much more. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Regulation is a common a barrier for businesses wanting to trade overseas: of the senior managers we surveyed, 87% say they experience challenges in working with foreign legal systems, 80% are hindered by barriers to trade such as tariffs and quotas, and 53% say the volume of regulation in their target market is an issue.

The challenges faced by manufacturers in the UK and US are similar, potentially making the case for increase trade stronger. Manufacturers could not only access opportunities for growth, but new approaches to problem solving and creative solutions.

On 20 July 2021, the UK Government published proposals for a new competition regime for digital markets “to make it fairer for smaller businesses, entrepreneurs, and the British public.