This month's Digest includes examples of the Competition & Markets Authority and the Advertising Standards Authority taking pro-active steps in priority areas (fake online reviews and gambling advertising respectively). We also feature investigations by the UK and Irish data privacy regulators as they begin to grapple with the complex issue of GDPR compliance in the AdTech sector. Finally, we cover two recent cases from the courts, dealing with bad faith registration of famous marks and the application of passing off to the names of annual award ceremonies.

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