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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Limiting online access to some web sites is terribly complicated, but can we please start by making it a little simpler…
Fad, fashion or durable? Sarah Pearce has fashioned an article that looks at the trend towards wearables…
Nominet has announced changes to its policy on publishing details of ownership of domain names…
Emma Cross reports from the SCL seminar hosted by Olswang LLP which asked ‘Has the DPA been stretched too far?’…
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Jonny Emmanuel considers the big questions surrounding Big Data…
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Lisa Downs expands on her contribution to the SCL Technology Law Futures Conference with a warning on control…
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….
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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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…