By: Tim Wright

Tim Wright is a partner in the corporate department at London law firm Fladgate. He specialises in commercial, outsourcing and technology transactions across various sector, covering cloud computing, digital platforms and e-commerce, web development and hosting, software development and licensing, system integration projects, and business transformation and digital projects.

Regulating the robots – unpacking the EU’s new AI Regulation

City Talk

The European Commission recently publish a first draft of its new Artificial Intelligence Regulation (AI Regulation). The AI Regulation covers both Providers (i.e. developers) and business Users of AI systems. Providers have a broad set of obligations owed to Users. Under the AI Regulation, AI systems are categorised as: – Prohibited: certain “manipulative” and “exploitative” uses of AI are outlawed [...]
Regulatory and legal challenges faced by Heathtech start-ups

City Talk

Healthtech – the digitisation of healthcare – aims to provide patients with easier and more accessible care with improved health outcomes. Acceptance and demand for digital health products, such as telemedicine, wearables, and patient apps, has been given a massive boost by the COVID-19 pandemic. Other factors driving growth, as well as investment and consolidation, [...]
Non-fungible tokens – looking at the legal issues

City Talk

Non–fungibletokens(NFTs) are big news. NFTs are special types of cryptographic tokens. Unlike cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, that are fungible (i.e. one bitcoin can be exchanged for another), NTCs are not interchangeable. Each NFT is a unique token on a blockchain, but unlike crypto, they store extra information which provide collectors the opportunity to build a digital [...]

Edge computing – what to look out for in 2021

January 18, 2021

Businesses will be familiar with cloud computing, with many having moved their IT to colocation facilities or to cloud-based applications such as Office 365, Salesforce and Slack. The networks required to deliver these services transfer huge amounts of data to central hubs where it is processed and stored. This can result in data congestion and [...]

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