When I find myself on the verge of defending Google, Facebook and Twitter, I take a deep breath, a strong drink and decide it’s best to sleep on it. That’s what I did yesterday. But I am afraid that, even after a day of sunshine, I still feel the need to come to their defence….
The Home Affairs Committee has published a new report which says that social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are ‘consciously failing’ to combat the use of their sites to promote terrorism and killings and that these networks have become ‘the vehicle of choice in spreading propaganda and the recruiting platforms for terrorism’….
If algorithmic government does ever achieve its full potential, John Morison offers an intimidating insight into the world we might see…
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Maria Helen Murphy explores surveillance algorithms and the interplay with fundamental rights…
Martin Sloan reflects on a recent judgment in the High Court which classified software as ‘goods’ and which may have implications for software licensors…
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Mark O’Conor with the latest news on SCL and some thoughts on IFCLA…
Lorraine Chimbga reviews Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies by Gordon Corera (Orion Publishing, Paperback – £8.99, pp 448, ISBN: 9781780227849)…
The EU Council has now accepted the public sector web accessibility directive…
Alicia Mendonca explains how a dating app famous for threesomes is responding to legal action from Tinder with a hashtag and dirty socks…
Andres Guadamuz returns to blockchain, including an introduction to some basic concepts for those not familiar with the technology, and goes on to cover recent developments, particularly the latest multi-million hacking attacks involving Ethereum’s DAO, which suggests that smart contracts are only as smart as the people drafting them…