The HTML5 Battery API
Neil Brown, Rebecca Collard and Micheál Ó Floinn comment on the news that functionality within the HTML5 standard may allow surreptitious tracking of users….
Telecoms & the Internet
Open Season on Service Providers? The General Data Protection Regulation Cometh…
Are you a service provider dealing with personal data? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Especially (but not only) if you’re an IaaS/PaaS cloud provider. Kuan Hon explains….
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Age and Online Access
Limiting online access to some web sites is terribly complicated, but can we please start by making it a little simpler…
Wearable Tech – A Passing Fashion?
Fad, fashion or durable? Sarah Pearce has fashioned an article that looks at the trend towards wearables…
Domain Names: Changes to .UK WHOIS Policy
Nominet has announced changes to its policy on publishing details of ownership of domain names…
SCL Event Report: Data Privacy and Online Journalism
Emma Cross reports from the SCL seminar hosted by Olswang LLP which asked ‘Has the DPA been stretched too far?’…
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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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The Internet of Things: How Will DATA (not you) Control the Machines that Control Your Home?
Lisa Downs expands on her contribution to the SCL Technology Law Futures Conference with a warning on control…
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….
From Transition Towns to Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges
The principles which underpin the Smart Cities initiatives are rarely seen as applicable to smaller communities but, as Branka Dimitrijevic shows, they are often equally valid in such contexts…
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