Review Compilation
Laurence Eastham offers reviews of publications that may be of interest to SCL members…
Publishing & social media
Protecting Privacy Online: GDPR and e-Privacy Directive Revisited
Agnieszka Jablonowska considers the role of data in the digital economy, focusing on the input from the BEUC, the EDPS and the Article 29 Working Party on the review of the e-Privacy Directive…
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Algorithms, Social Media and Mental Health
Heike Felzmann and Rónán Kennedy address many of the issues surrounding the use of algorithms to assess mental health from public social media contributions, including some legal and ethical concerns…
SCL Event Report: Foundations of IT Law – Risk, Cyber and Computer Misuse
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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Book Review: Celebrity and Royal Privacy, the Media and the Law
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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GDPR and the ICO: Influenced or Independent?
Tim Turner looks at the strange shift in the ICO’s position on the GDPR which seems to raise important questions about the Information Commissioner’s independence….
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Internet Giants and Other Fairy Tales
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….
Internet ‘Giants’ and Extremism on the Web
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’….
Algorithmic Governmentality: Techo-optimism and the Move towards the Dark Side
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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Algorithmic Surveillance: True Negatives
Maria Helen Murphy explores surveillance algorithms and the interplay with fundamental rights…