Mark Turner examines the defects in existing systems for agreeing international obligations of the kind that are vital to the flowering of the information age. The disintermediation of government leads him to suggest a constitutional convention for the information age….
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Ian Brown paints a picture of a rapidly changing data protection landscape, with the dangers arising from technical revolutions and political adjustments in the foreground…
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There’s nothing like a trip to the DIY store to bring home the importance of privacy, or lack of it….
We asked experts in various fields for their take on likely developments for 2010 and beyond. The predictions are published on the SCL Web site. This is a selection of predictions relating to law firm management, legal software, strategy and the like….
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We asked experts in various fields for their take on likely developments for 2010 and beyond. The predictions are published on the SCL Web site. This is a selection of predictions relating to IT law and the changes that are likely to affect the practice of it….
Laurence Eastham, Editor of Computers & Law and of this site, provides his predictions for 2010 and beyond.
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Lilian Edwards considers the foundation of the ‘immunity’ granted to information society service providers by the E-Commerce Directive. She asks whether the emphasis laid in the recent Attorney General’s Opinion in ‘the AdWords case’ on neutrality as a qualification for that immunity is justified….
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Two more contributors, Professor Lilian Edwards and Intendance’s James Tuke, give us a heady mix of the insightful, the practical and one instance of what we can only hope is the delightfully silly.
Selections from the predictions will appear in the magazine, arranged by topic.
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A High Court ruling has confirmed that the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 can be used to protect the publisher of a web site where comments are allegedly libellous….
John MacKenzie and TJ McIntyre provide the third set of predictions for 2010 and beyond.
Selections from the predictions will appear in the magazine, arranged by topic.
Check back regularly for more predictions – they will be posted in batches throughout December….