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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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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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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Daniel Trottier reminds us that not all the characteristics of smart cities will be planned and controlled…
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I share my gripes about the wonderful Twitter…
Lorna Woods takes a detailed look at the judgment in Delfi v Estonia and its implications…
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In the latest in our series on Smart Cities, Marko Balabanovic and Paul Galwas focus on Environment to Consumer services and the use of spatio-temporal data. They consider that such information poses privacy risks, since people’s movements and interactions are so predictable and that cities that embrace privacy principles can build citizen trust by transparently addressing public concerns over data sharing in their ecosystems of third-party service providers….
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…
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In another in our series of articles focusing on Smart Cities, we are reminded that buildings are, rather obviously, a central ingredient of smart cities. Dr Holger Schnädelbach explains the less obvious: how data and technology are linked to the built environment…
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Matt Bogdan reviews the background to the latest Google competition law moves and assesses the chances of successful Commission action…