Book Review: Cloud Computing: A Practical Introduction to the Legal Issues

‘It’s amazing how they can transmit the internet through the clouds, isn’t it? What jurisdiction are they even in?’ I checked that my friend wasn’t in fact referring to Google’s Loon project or Facebook’s solar-powered drones (where these are pertinent questions[[http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/can-we-trust-google-with-the-stratosphere/278797/]]) and then offered to lend him this book: Renzo Marchini’s ‘Cloud Computing: A Practical…

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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…

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The Promise and Perils of Smart Cities

In the first of a series of articles on the Smart Cities theme, Rob Kitchin introduces some of the key concepts and issues. This article will be featured in the June/July issue of Computers & Law, which will focus on Smart Cities from a range of perspectives, with a view to giving technology lawyers a wider understanding of one of the most important developments of this decade and the decades to come….

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