Publishing & social media

The Internet of Things and Privacy: When Do Privacy Laws Apply?

June 5, 2016

John Beardwood and Mark Bowman offer some insights from a Canadian perspective into the impact of the IoT on privacy in an extract from a much longer paper The Internet of Things and Privacy: An Analytic Framework. This extract tackles one of the crucial issues. The full paper may be downloaded as a pdf from the panel opposite. John Beardwood is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference 2016….

Have ‘Generation Tagged’ Lost their Privacy?

June 3, 2016

Marion Oswald asks if our laws are keeping up with social media? The Supreme Court’s ‘Celebrity Threesome’ judgment means the jury’s still out….

Book Review: How to Build a Billion Dollar App

June 3, 2016

Neil Brown reviews ‘How to Build a Billion Dollar App: Discover the secrets of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time’ by George Berkowski, a book which he had hoped would put him on the pathway to billions but probably won’t….

Suffer the Little Children…The Supremes, the Internet and PJS

June 1, 2016

Robin Callender Smith picks his way carefully through the celebrity/privacy minefield…

The EU Digital Single Market: Opening the EU to Digital Business or Closing the Market?

May 31, 2016

IFCLA President Roger Bickerstaff asks some tough questions about Commission priorities in its grand plan for the Digital Single Market. Roger is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference on the topic ‘Digital Single Market – Stocktake on Proposals’…

Book Review: Gringras: The Laws of the Internet

May 26, 2016

Annabelle Gold-Caution reviews the Fourth Edition of Gringras: The Laws of the Internet by Dr Paul Lambert, ISBN: 9781847668943 Pub date: January 2016 Format: Hardback Extent: 672pp Price: £175. Also available in epub and pdf formats at £169.99…

Digital Enablement of Banking Services in an API Economy

May 11, 2016

With digital disruption high on the agenda for organisations working in the financial services industry, Kenny Robertson looks at the importance of APIs and what the adoption of progressive API strategies might bring with particular reference to his own employer, RBS. Kenny Robertson is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference on the topic FinTech – IT and Financial Services Regulation….

Social Media Control: Criminal Trial

May 2, 2016

A Court of Appeal judgment confronts ‘the issue of how critical fair trial protections can be extended to prevent or control communications on social media’….

CPD Online: Foundations Cycle 2, Module 4 – Internet Law and Social Media

April 17, 2016

Questions arising from the podcast of the meeting on 17 March 2016. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL:OC42 – CPD: 2 hours…

SCL Chair Calls for Input from In-house Lawyers

April 5, 2016

Mark O’Conor is asking in-house lawyers in the tech space or with IT law responsibilities to get in touch with SCL to help it better reflect their needs…