Chris Finney looks at a recent Attorney General’s Opinion and sees it as a useful prompt for financial services organisations to review their compliance with their duty to provide information to customers….
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Quentin Tannock reports on the latest event in the Foundations of IT Law series (Module 7 – Cycle 2), held on 14 September 2016 and hosted by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (Europe) LLP….
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Laurence Eastham reviews Professor Robin Callender Smith’s book, published by Sweet & Maxwell in December 2015 (ISBN: 9780414050877, £175, 563 pp)…
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The proposed agreement for the exchange of passenger name record data between the EU and Canada has been described as incompatible with EU fundamental rights by Advocate General Mengozzi as it is currently drafted…
This issue has a special focus on algorithms, government and the law which I hope will awaken an interest in the topic among SCL members. I am very grateful to John Danaher and Rónán Kennedy for their help in producing these articles, which arise from a seminar organised by Galway University. For reasons of space…
When I find myself on the verge of defending Google, Facebook and Twitter, I take a deep breath, a strong drink and decide it’s best to sleep on it. That’s what I did yesterday. But I am afraid that, even after a day of sunshine, I still feel the need to come to their defence….
The Home Affairs Committee has published a new report which says that social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are ‘consciously failing’ to combat the use of their sites to promote terrorism and killings and that these networks have become ‘the vehicle of choice in spreading propaganda and the recruiting platforms for terrorism’….
If algorithmic government does ever achieve its full potential, John Morison offers an intimidating insight into the world we might see…
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Maria Helen Murphy explores surveillance algorithms and the interplay with fundamental rights…
There have been a number of recent legal developments in Ireland arising from the increase in the use of drones. Pearse Ryan, Tom Browne and Sorcha Ní Loinsigh summarise the changes and highlight their significance….