An Irish court has granted an interlocutory injunction against Facebook and Google and required YouTube, Google, Facebook and a number of web sites to permanently remove a video and accompanying material which wrongly identified a man dodging a taxi fare and defamed him with a series of offensive comments…
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Ashley Avery reports on the ‘hot topic’ seminar on augmented reality held on 24 April at Travers Smith LLP….
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The Defamation Act 2013 and the Crime and Courts Act 2013 are now published…
The Office of Fair Trading has announced that it is to begin an investigation into free children’s web and app-based games. Includes comment from Jas Purewal and Vanessa Barnett….
Susan Atkinson and Gabrielle Benefield analyse recent research and draw disturbing conclusions about the ‘Contract Model’…
Dr Benjamin Farrand asks: can you be greater than the sum of your parts? He considers just some of the socio-legal problems with Human Enhancement Technologies…
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If you count software bots as robots then robots are already being used to deceive and exploit people who mistake them for humans. Miranda Mowbray enlightens you….
Julia Hörnle looks at a German case concerning the application of EU data protection law to foreign service providers and similar questions arising elsewhere in the EU, all of which raise issues about what amounts to the right kind of establishment…
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Graham Smith gives us his take on the recent Court of Appeal judgment in Tamiz v Google. This article is taken from his Cyberleagle blog at www.cyberleagle.com….
Lachlan Urquhart considers the various issues raised by drones…
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