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Cyber matters: the next frontier for litigation?

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17 April 2019 / Dean Armstrong KC
Issue: 7837 / Categories: Features , Technology , Data protection , Regulatory
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Dean Armstrong QC looks ahead & shares some predictions for the future of cyber litigation
  • From class actions to crypto assets, the growing influence of technology.
  • Blockchain is one of the biggest potential market disruptors, and its relationship with recent regulatory initiatives is often a tense one.

The new year heralded what is now a traditional crystal ball gazing fest into the technology and trends we need to look out for in the coming year. On 8 January 2019, Fast Company published ‘Nine technologies creeping us out in 2019’—identifying the technology that deserves our vigilance before ‘creepy’ creeps into ‘dangerous’. From facial recognition to digital fakes, home surveillance and genetic abuse, it is all about the data that is being harvested from our digital footprints.

MIT Technology Review countered with a forward-looking piece about the ‘Five emerging cyber-threats to worry about in 2019’, identifying risks which included ‘AI-powered deep fake videos and hacking of Blockchain-powered smart contracts’. Alarmingly, it was

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