In the case of driverless vehicles, and perhaps more generally in robot law, Peter Lee and Sabrina Richards suggest that the robot laws for the 21st Century might best be inspired by the Romans…
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Kuan Hon writes about her impressions of Google Glass after a session with a demo unit…
As T S Eliot almost said, ‘August is the cruellest month’ – everybody else is on holiday, or maybe you are just back from holiday and wondering why you bothered to return. Adam Whitfield-Jones and Joanne Frears have put together a diversion that might help lawyers who really don’t want to be lawyering at the moment….
Hamed Haddadi, Akram Alomainy and Ian Brown explain what the ‘quantified self’ is and identify some of the privacy risks that arise. This is one of our series of articles arising from the SCL Technology Law Futures Forum, which is still available as a podcast, at which Akram spoke….
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The SCL Technology Law Futures Forum in June included a debate on personal data stores. One of the speakers, William Heath explains the benefits and costs and responds to some of the questions raised on the day….
Peter Lee considers the law and regulation that applies, and might come to apply, as drones technology develops. This is one of our series of articles arising from the SCL Technology Law Futures Forum, which is still available as a podcast, at which Peter spoke….
The House of Lords Communications Committee has published a report which takes the view that there is no need for new legislation to cover social media offences – existing laws and guidance, properly applied, can do the job….
Alex Cochrane looks at the latest suggestions that the UK will legislate on revenge porn and asks if anything can be learned from the different international approaches to date…
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Laura Bruin reports on the fifth module in SCL’s Foundation of IT Law, which took place on 2 July 2014…
In the first of a series of articles arising from SCL’s hugely successful Technology Law Futures Forum, which is still available as a podcast, Alistair Maughan shines a light on the Internet of Things and the important points for lawyers to note…