Ofcom Report on Internet Safety Measures
Ofcom has published its report on progress on measures designed to protect children from ‘harmful content’ when using the Internet…
Telecoms & the Internet
In-app Purchases: Google is Teacher’s Pet and Apple is on the Naughty Step
The European Commission reports on progress, and the lack of it, in improving transparency on in-app purchases in online games. Reads like an end-of term report…
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The Internet of Things: A Lawyer’s Guide
In the first of a series of articles arising from SCL’s hugely successful Technology Law Futures Forum, which is still available as a podcast, Alistair Maughan shines a light on the Internet of Things and the important points for lawyers to note…
Editorial
I would like to think that this is a ‘something for everyone’ issue. We had so many good articles available that I had to cut back on my plan to cover views of the Google Spain judgment in greater detail in order to fit more in. As it is, the e-pub readers still get a…
Google Spain: Triumph or Disaster
With the seminal judgment in Google Spain, aka the Costeja ruling, having excited more comment than any CJEU judgment in recent years, Laurence Eastham offers some pointers to what has happened since and what has been said about the judgment. Note that this article was created for the magazine and is posted online merely for completeness….
Cases Round-up
Laurence Eastham summarises some of the recent cases reported on the SCL web site which are not covered elsewhere in the magazine. Fuller reports are available on this site as news items….
In Right to Be Forgotten Proceedings, Who Represents the Public Interest?
Albert Gidari Jr offers a view from the USA on the approach which should be taken to resolving some of the issues that arise from the Google Spain judgment…
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Understanding and Influencing the Future
Here is why IT law practitioners really need to attend the SCL Technology Law Futures Forum. It is all about – understanding and influencing the future of technology law…
Creeping Up and Racing Past
I worry about coping with ‘future technology’ today…
The End of the Beginning of Non-bank Finance?
Facebook has announced it is asking for regulatory approval to run its own money transfer service, joining the likes of Google in challenging the banks over the supply of consumer finance services. Simon Deane-Johns assesses the impact of these developments on the dominance of banks within the financial sector. This article first appeared in the May issue of E-Finance & Payments Law & Policy: www.e-comlaw.com/efplp…
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