Wearable Tech – A Passing Fashion?
Fad, fashion or durable? Sarah Pearce has fashioned an article that looks at the trend towards wearables…
Society & Justice
Digital Vigilantism: User-led Policing of Smart Cities?
Daniel Trottier reminds us that not all the characteristics of smart cities will be planned and controlled…
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The Promise and Perils of Smart Cities
In the first of a series of articles on the Smart Cities theme, Rob Kitchin introduces some of the key concepts and issues. This article will be featured in the June/July issue of Computers & Law, which will focus on Smart Cities from a range of perspectives, with a view to giving technology lawyers a wider understanding of one of the most important developments of this decade and the decades to come….
War on Google: Vestager Strikes Back
Matt Bogdan reviews the background to the latest Google competition law moves and assesses the chances of successful Commission action…
The Rise of the Sharing Economy
Susan McLean introduces us to the characteristics and challenges of the sharing economy, outlines the considerable UK developments to make special provision for it and highlights the legal issues that have to be borne in mind by those operating in it…
Can We Trust Cryptocurrencies?
Mark Deem considers cryptocurrencies, trust and regulation…
Predictions 2015: IT and Legal Practice
This set of predictions comes from leading consultants and commentators operating in legal IT…
Predictions: Meaty Material
The third set of predictions from our expert contributors. Joanna Goodman and Chris Dale break the contribution rules – to very positive effect – and they and Jan DeCerce give their very substantial take on things to watch for in 2015 and beyond…
Google Keywords: Interflora v M & S – Back to Square One?
The Court of Appeal has detected errors in the judgment of Arnold J that backed Interflora’s claim against Marks and Spencer and has remitted the case for a further hearing…
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SCL Events Reports
For many years the magazine reported on SCL events but these are now found only online. But we worry that many members are missing out on memorable and useful training opportunities. So here are two reports on events from September. Annie Clarke reports on the SCL Big Data Masterclass, Big Data & Digital: competition, consumer protection and other challengesand James Henderson reports on the sixth module in SCL’s Foundation of IT Law, Cloud Computing….