https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/tags/regulation/ Recent content in Regulation on Damien Dye's Blog Hugo en-GB Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part3/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part3/ Part 3 of 3. What the SLA actually promises, what the liability cap is worth, and what the excuses sound like when it fails: the meeting about an invented crisis, the day it becomes your fault, the account that goes quiet, the advice that costs them money, what leaving really involves, and why nobody regulates the selling. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/what-the-record-shows/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/what-the-record-shows/ Part 4 of 8. Picking a supplier means guessing how they will behave later, and the fairest guess is what courts and regulators have decided. Findings against the largest tech firms, leaning on European decisions and the cases regulators lost, then the pattern: fines small next to the gain, remedies years late, harms known inside long before out. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/how-far-the-law-reaches/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/how-far-the-law-reaches/ Part 5 of 8. Part 2 covered the law that reaches your data; this one the law that reaches your company. Non-American firms paying huge penalties under US law for conduct barely connected to America, what the French National Assembly made of it as a commercial weapon, and the assumptions a product carries from its home market. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/the-same-pattern-elsewhere/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/the-same-pattern-elsewhere/ Part 7 of 8. This is not really about technology. Four firms control most of the world's seed supply and licence terms can stop a farmer replanting; ten retailers move most of Britain's food. Both got a legal answer, a Groceries Code Adjudicator here and an unfair-trading directive across the EU. Software has nowt like it, and this asks why.