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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
We published a blog last year about Uber’s pilot and driverless cars and, at that point, it seemed straight out of the pages of a science fiction novel, but driverless cars are now well and truly amongst us, and it seems that everyone is jumping on the band wagon.
In just over a year (25 May 2018), the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “Regulation”) will replace the Data Protection Act 1998 (“the DPA”) and come into force in the UK. This will be just under a year before Brexit. In any event, the Regulation would still apply to all companies who intend to do business with the EU and handle the personal information of European citizens.
Hardly a day goes by without a new story about another cyber-attack, leaked or hacked passwords or log-ins.
Anyone who has ever tried to buy a house will know that location is everything. In London, house buyers will pay a premium for an average house in a sought-after postcode purely so they can utter those magic 3 words “NW3” or “SW3 at the end of their address. The internet is no different and with the recent launch of the gTLD program (Generic Top Level Domains), a whole raft of domain name suffixes has now become available, indeed Rich Merdinger cannily describes these domain names as “21st century real estate”.
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