Special Focus The focus of this issue is Smart Cities. We have nine articles taking different stances on the topic. All of this was inspired by an event held in Glasgow at the end of March, Designing Smart Cities – opportunities and regulatory challenges (jointly organised by CREATe, Horizon and Strathclyde University). A full resource…
Legal Profession out in Full Force to Support the Online Courts Hackathon
Latest on the massive support for this weekend’s Online Courts Hackathon…
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Drones: New Article 29 Working Party Opinion
The Article 29 Working Party has issued a new Opinion on the privacy and data implications of the use of drones…
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Things I Hate about Twitter
I share my gripes about the wonderful Twitter…
Book Review: Jane Fae’s ‘Taming the Beast’
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…
mHealth – Reconciling Technical Innovation with Data Protection
Sarah Hanson, Emma Burnett, Ian Stevens and Andrew Payne cover a recent opinion from the EDPS and its impact….
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Delfi v Estonia: Curtailing Online Freedom of Expression?
Lorna Woods takes a detailed look at the judgment in Delfi v Estonia and its implications…
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PSD2 Evolved
Simon Deane-Johns updates his review of the revised proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the internal market in light of a supposedly final text….
CPD Online: SCL Foundations of IT Law: Module 10
These are questions arising from the Podcast: SCL Foundations of IT Law Programme: Module 10 – IT in a Regulated Environment. Course code HW/SFCL:OC31 CPD 2 hours….
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Universal Service Excludes Mobile Service
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the Universal Service Directive does not lay down a social pricing obligation for mobile communications and mobile Internet subscriptions…