A year on, Emily Barwell reviews the progress of the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018; considering how regulation is progressing and what applicable legislation there is to support the widespread uptake of this new technology.
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Top 200 law firm, BPE Solicitors spoke at a high-profile event at the Royal Society of Arts in London this week, where the findings of a major research programme into Data Trusts were unveiled.

BPE Solicitors' Science & Technology team gains newly qualified solicitor, Emily Barwell.
Emily Barwell gives an update on the data ethics landscape following last year's implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation and a larger interest in on the data practices of companies following the Cambridge Analytica scandal
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BPE Solicitors has been appointed as the sole legal representative to advise on a world first, ‘data trust’ pilot project for use in the Sharing Cities programme, in partnership with the Open Data Institute (ODI).
The Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 (“NIS Regulations”) rather quietly came into force in UK law on 10 May 2018, overshadowed by all the attention given to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). For many that rely on business continuity for essential and/or digital services, this is a welcome piece of legislation to ensure cyber security standards are met and to protect business continuity in the age of the internet.
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