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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Daniel Trottier reminds us that not all the characteristics of smart cities will be planned and controlled…
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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 Supreme Court has supported the publication of a photograph of a juvenile suspected of involvement in rioting…
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I share my gripes about the wonderful Twitter…
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…
Lorna Woods takes a detailed look at the judgment in Delfi v Estonia and its implications…
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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….
As in so many areas, Singapore is leading the way in aspects of Smart Cities development, Melissa Low explains the history and looks forward at the issues that will arise in Singapore’s future development…
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In another in our series of articles on Smart Cities, Rob Procter describes a vision for the smart city – more open and more community focused than the norm…
Read More… from The Last Mile: The Smart City Meets Social Innovation