What’s the Big Deal? Big Data in the Financial Services Sector
Jonny Emmanuel considers the big questions surrounding Big Data…
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SCL Event Report: Beginners’ Guide to the Digital Marketplace
David Egan reports on the first session hosted by the SCL Junior Lawyer’s Group, an event held at Bird & Bird on 22 June 2015….
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Is Luddism the Answer to ‘Keeping Humans at the Heart’?
This article draws on Neil Brown’s contribution to the SCL’s Technology Law Futures Conference, in which he mused on the parallel between today’s concerns about the impact of technologies and those of the Luddites in the 19th century, and floated the idea of a ‘human impact assessment’….
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A-G’s Opinion: Newspaper Web Sites Should Escape AVMS Regulation
According to an Advocate General’s Opinion in proceedings before the CJEU, a newspaper website containing audiovisual material is not an audiovisual service within the meaning of EU law…
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Digital Vigilantism: User-led Policing of Smart Cities?
Daniel Trottier reminds us that not all the characteristics of smart cities will be planned and controlled…
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Smart City, Surveillance City
Too often a technology’s capacity and curiosity about its limits leads to an unremitting focus on achieving a goal without considering the desirability of the goal. Smart Cities may be no different. David Murakami Wood offers a refreshing focus on the links between smart cities and surveillance….
Privacy, Publication of Images and Article 8: New Supreme Court Judgment
The Supreme Court has supported the publication of a photograph of a juvenile suspected of involvement in rioting…
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Things I Hate about Twitter
I share my gripes about the wonderful Twitter…
Book Review: Jane Fae’s ‘Taming the Beast’
Neil Brown draws out a number of themes likely to be of interest to Internet lawyers from Jane Fae’s recent publication ‘Taming the Beast’, which critiques the UK legal framework for the regulation of pornography, obscenity and indecent images of children, and explores the challenges posed by the Internet, and the current technical approaches to filtering and blocking these types of content…
Delfi v Estonia: Curtailing Online Freedom of Expression?
Lorna Woods takes a detailed look at the judgment in Delfi v Estonia and its implications…
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