Lorna Brazell asks profound questions about the nature of identity and privacy. She looks at the forms of legal protection which might be used to protect any right to privacy that exists and looks forward with alarm to a brave new world of increased observation of the actions of the ordinary citizen….
The Ministry of Justice issued a consultation paper on 16 September – Defamation and the internet: the multiple publication rule….
Tess Crean examines the effect of major new Irish legislation on defamation and welcomes the clarification of the law that it offers….
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Randomly generated links are not just puzzling but might be downright dangerous, and searches can be dangerous too….
Are Scottish solicitors Inksters the first firm to have a dedicated YouTube channel?…
Struan Robertson gives a full account of Patchett and Patchett v SPATA, and offers his analysis of the judgments. He has doubts about the judges’ grasp of Web site behaviour and sees a forthcoming resurgence of the site waiver as a possible result of the case. This article is an edited version of material first appearing on the OUT-LAW Web site at www.out-law.com…
Andrew Withers outlines some key considerations where customers are reviewing their existing outsourcing arrangements or are showing some reluctance to enter into new outsourcing arrangements….
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When the surveillance society came knocking at my door, I started off grateful and ended up worried. And I started to wonder about privacy and the right to do wrong….
Brian Harley, Philip Nolan, Liam Ó Móráin and Mark Leyden tease out, from the current state of the emerging technologies, what legal challenges those involved in the development of the Semantic Web and its applications need to be aware of. They also give lawyers who are not familiar with the Semantic Web a glimpse of the potential and pitfalls that these exciting new technologies present….
Laurence Eastham briefly reports a case where Google has defeated an attempt to land it with liability for allegedly defamatory content appearing in the snippets that come with its search results….