Facebook Experiment: Justified Outrage
Filtering news and manipulating moods and emotions? Yep, that’s me. And probably lots of you too….
Publishing & social media
Back to the Future – Coming Shortly
The SCL Technology Law Futures Forum was a great success. Podcasts will be available soon….
Google Spain: Triumph or Disaster
With the seminal judgment in Google Spain, aka the Costeja ruling, having excited more comment than any CJEU judgment in recent years, Laurence Eastham offers some pointers to what has happened since and what has been said about the judgment. Note that this article was created for the magazine and is posted online merely for completeness….
Social Media Offences: House of Lords Inquiry
The House of Lords Communications Committee has announced an inquiry into social media and communications offences…
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In Right to Be Forgotten Proceedings, Who Represents the Public Interest?
Albert Gidari Jr offers a view from the USA on the approach which should be taken to resolving some of the issues that arise from the Google Spain judgment…
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‘Big Data’: Here to Stay…. But What is it?
Lillian Pang aims to shine a floodlight on Big Data…
Creeping Up and Racing Past
I worry about coping with ‘future technology’ today…
The End of the Beginning of Non-bank Finance?
Facebook has announced it is asking for regulatory approval to run its own money transfer service, joining the likes of Google in challenging the banks over the supply of consumer finance services. Simon Deane-Johns assesses the impact of these developments on the dominance of banks within the financial sector. This article first appeared in the May issue of E-Finance & Payments Law & Policy: www.e-comlaw.com/efplp…
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Pass the Word: What recourse do consumers have when their passwords are compromised?
Inspired by the recent call to change eBay passwords, Mark Weston reflects on the remedies available to users, and the absence of real remedies…
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Image Rights and Privacy
Louise Turner asks if the Weller case has created an image right in relation to the facial expressions of children…