Personal Data Stores
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….
Publishing & social media
Drone Laws – Shaping an Industry
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….
Social Media: We Don’t Need New Laws
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….
Legislating on Revenge Porn: An International Perspective
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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SCL Event Report: Foundations of IT Law Programme – Module 5: Risk, Cyber-threat and Computer Misuse
Laura Bruin reports on the fifth module in SCL’s Foundation of IT Law, which took place on 2 July 2014…
The Internet of Things: A Lawyer’s Guide
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…
Facebook Experiment: Justified Outrage
Filtering news and manipulating moods and emotions? Yep, that’s me. And probably lots of you too….
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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