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Publication date: May 25, 2018
Data Retention and Management
In the modern information age, no organisation can ignore the lure and obvious utility of the digitisation of data, be it the use of big data to spur business competitiveness, innovation and growth, or through the remote access to information through cloud computing. Despite the use of digitisation improving the ease of doing business, with information from various sources and different formats, companies are faced with myriad organisational, regulatory and legal concerns with respect to data management. There has never been a greater or more pressing need to ensure that a company’s data is reliable, accessible and protected.
Meanwhile, at the level of international law, the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic of 8 November 1968 was amended by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe on 23 March 2016 in order to explicitly allow in traffic autonomous vehicles provided that the self-driving technologies “are in conformity with the United Nations vehicle regulations or can be overridden or switched off by the driver”
The main points discussed by each of the Justices of the Supreme Court in this landmark judgement are summarised and extracted below.
