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Berlin to Dublin to Beijing: Blockchain’s trail
Get PDFIn this article Ugo Bechini (a Civil Law Notary in Genoa, Italy) considers Blockchain technology and describes the potential roles for both open and permissioned Blockchains in secure indelible transactions – highlighting the opportunities and challenges presented for regulatory oversight and international cooperation.
Index words: Blockchain technology, cryptographic keys, ledgers, indelible transfers, law and legislatio
Political Uncertainty and Section 40
Get PDFJulian Harris gives a further update on progress with the Leveson reforms. The Conservative Party’s 2017 manifesto made it clear that the decision had been taken not to proceed with Part 2 of the Leveson Report and to repeal section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013. Section 40 requires courts to award costs against defendant publishers in cases where a claim has been made against them by an individual concerning the publication of news-related material and the defendant publisher was not a member of an approved regulatory organisation. The manifesto pledge and subsequent re-election of the Conservative Party has summarily curtailed the debate over section 40, which was the subject of a consultation mounted by Culture Secretary Karen Bradley in November 2015. A report is still awaited, and to that extent the arguments for and against implementation of the section remain unresolved, but once the new government took office it appeared that a policy decision had been taken and appropriate action would soon follow
Sustaining a quality press
Get PDFThe influential House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee has suggested newspapers and magazines should not be compelled to accept regulation under the terms of the Royal Charter if a regulator which meets the “spirit” of the Leveson reforms can be created by the press. Some will see the committee’s analysis as providing the basis for a modified system of Leveson press control acceptable to government and the industry, while to others it will signal a return to self-regulation and the shortcomings of the Press Complaints Commission
Countering misinformation and disinformation
Get PDFJulian Harris outlines the ways in which the perceived threat to democracy presented by “fake news” and the manipulation of data has prompted politicians and decision-makers in the United Kingdom to address the situation.
Index keywords: Information law, fake news, data securit
Still Keeping Secrets? Bank Secrecy, Money Laundering, and Anti-Money Laundering in Switzerland and Singapore
Get PDFIt was the Swiss Banking Act 1934 that first created numbered bank accounts, and in Switzerland, the principle of bank secrecy continues to be regarded as one of the primary aspects of private banking. Switzerland has long been accused of being one of the main tools of organised crime and the underground economy both by governments and Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), particularly after the class action suit against the Clearstream scandal, the Vatican Bank, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In addition to Switzerland, Singapore was ranked 5th on the Financial Secrecy Index (FSI) in 2018, and faced a delicate conundrum because of the signs of crisis in emerging economies such as Indonesia and India, and came under growing pressure from the U.S. and Europe, which accused it of providing unfair advantages in the competition of tax havens. This article discusses money laundering and bank secrecy in Singapore and Switzerland primarily, and discusses whether they are still keeping financial information as secret as before because of its link to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Bank Secrecy
Time of signing in the Estonian digital signature scheme
Get PDFThere is a widespread misconception among some lawyers, technologists and the public that the Estonian digital signature scheme provides reliable proof of the time when a document was digitally signed. In this article Tõnu Mets and Arnis Parsovs show that the legal requirement to establish the time of signing is not met in practice. The related legal requirement that the validation of the digital signature should confirm that the certificate was valid at the time of signing is also not met. The authors analyse the legal consequences of this, and discuss possible solutions for the issues that arise. They note that digital signature schemes used in other countries implementing Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and the Council of 23 July 2014 (eIDAS) are likely to share the problems discussed in this article.
Index words: Estonia, European Union, Digital signatures, Electronic document
