Tag: legislation

ICTP 249: Unpacking the legal issues surrounding blockchain technology, with Alexander Gafoor of FinTechTT

Director of Regulatory Compliance of the FinTech Association of Trinidad and Tobago, Alexander Gafoor, helps us to explore some of the legal issues surrounding blockchain technology including, why you still may need a real-world contract even if an NFT has a smart contract; some of the legal issues associated with NFTs; reconciling the transparency and immutability of blockchain technology with data privacy legislation; and the valuing of digital assets, particularly with respect to taxes.

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ICTP 240: An update on data protection and privacy since GDPR, with Bartlett Morgan

Privacy and data protection have been gaining visibility globally. Even here in the Caribbean region, more countries that had not addressed the issue, are developing the requisite policies and legislation. Digital law and policy lawyer, Bartlett Morgan, joins us again to give us an update on privacy and data protection since our last conversation in 2018, and discusses among other things: some of the emerging issues around AI and privacy; the balance between hyper-personalisation and privacy; and key trends he is seeing in the privacy and data protection space.

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