Google, Googlies and Goolies
Is Google getting off lightly in its likely settlement with the EU Commission on search?…
Litigation & DR
Blogs and Leveson
The Department for Culture. Media & Sport has published its proposals ‘to ensure small blogs are exempt from exemplary damages and costs incentives for membership of a press regulator’…
Data in a Crisis – Manage Your Risk
With litigation and internal investigations always at least conceivable, and perhaps just round the corner, Caroline Jan considers ways to manage data risks so as to limit the damage caused by a sudden crisis…
App Games – OFT Investigation
The Office of Fair Trading has announced that it is to begin an investigation into free children’s web and app-based games. Includes comment from Jas Purewal and Vanessa Barnett….
Human Enhancement Technologies – Edging towards the Cyborg?
Dr Benjamin Farrand asks: can you be greater than the sum of your parts? He considers just some of the socio-legal problems with Human Enhancement Technologies…
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Google Privacy Policy Enforcement
Six European data protection authorities are to launch coordinated and simultaneous enforcement actions in light of Google’s alleged breaches of data protection law…
SCL Lecture Report: Big and Open Data
Scott Allardyce reports on the SCL 40th Anniversary Lecture from Professor Nigel Shadbolt. A podcast of the Lecture is now available on the site….
Bad Bots
If you count software bots as robots then robots are already being used to deceive and exploit people who mistake them for humans. Miranda Mowbray enlightens you….
Justice Committee Report on ICO
The House of Commons Justice Committee has published a report on the functions, powers and resources of the Information Commissioner…
The Aerial Gaze: Regulating Domestic Drones in the UK
Lachlan Urquhart considers the various issues raised by drones…
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