David Egan reports on the first session hosted by the SCL Junior Lawyer’s Group, an event held at Bird & Bird on 22 June 2015….
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Is Luddism the Answer to ‘Keeping Humans at the Heart’?
This article draws on Neil Brown’s contribution to the SCL’s Technology Law Futures Conference, in which he mused on the parallel between today’s concerns about the impact of technologies and those of the Luddites in the 19th century, and floated the idea of a ‘human impact assessment’….
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CPD Online: June/July 2015 Edition of Computers & Law Magazine
Questions arising from the Junel/July 2015 issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL:OC32 – CPD: 1 hour 30 minutes…
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SCL Event Report: Technology Law Futures Conference – Evening Keynote
Flora Blackett-Ord reports on the talk from Dylan Evans on ‘The Great AI Swindle’ which was the evening keynote for the latest SCL Technology Law Futures Conference…
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A-G’s Opinion: Newspaper Web Sites Should Escape AVMS Regulation
According to an Advocate General’s Opinion in proceedings before the CJEU, a newspaper website containing audiovisual material is not an audiovisual service within the meaning of EU law…
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Digital Vigilantism: User-led Policing of Smart Cities?
Daniel Trottier reminds us that not all the characteristics of smart cities will be planned and controlled…
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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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Privacy, Publication of Images and Article 8: New Supreme Court Judgment
The Supreme Court has supported the publication of a photograph of a juvenile suspected of involvement in rioting…
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Editorial
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…