Universal Service Excludes Mobile Service
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the Universal Service Directive does not lay down a social pricing obligation for mobile communications and mobile Internet subscriptions…
Technology, Society & Justice
Whose Smart City is it Anyway?
In the latest in our series on Smart Cities, Marko Balabanovic and Paul Galwas focus on Environment to Consumer services and the use of spatio-temporal data. They consider that such information poses privacy risks, since people’s movements and interactions are so predictable and that cities that embrace privacy principles can build citizen trust by transparently addressing public concerns over data sharing in their ecosystems of third-party service providers….
Many Smart Cities, One Smart Nation – Singapore’s Smart Nation Vision
As in so many areas, Singapore is leading the way in aspects of Smart Cities development, Melissa Low explains the history and looks forward at the issues that will arise in Singapore’s future development…
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The Last Mile: The Smart City Meets Social Innovation
In another in our series of articles on Smart Cities, Rob Procter describes a vision for the smart city – more open and more community focused than the norm…
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Smart Cities: The Built Environment as the Interface to Personal Data
In another in our series of articles focusing on Smart Cities, we are reminded that buildings are, rather obviously, a central ingredient of smart cities. Dr Holger Schnädelbach explains the less obvious: how data and technology are linked to the built environment…
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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….
Smart Cities: Creative Compliance and the Rise of ‘Designers as Regulators’
In the second in our series of articles on Smart Cities, Lachlan Urquhart and Dr Ewa Luger address the disconnect between DP regulation and systems design. Their research in this area may have identified one route to ‘creative compliance’….
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Feedback and Futures
My thanks for feedback from members (keep it coming) and a look to the future, and the Futures and Annual Conferences…
Editorial
This issue, though somewhat skewed towards case reports (excellent and important though they are) includes two pieces that I find especially interesting. Susan McLean on the sharing economy and Emma Wright and Dianne Devlin on smart cities deal with emerging trends that may shape our future more profoundly than that election thingy that I keep…
Fare for All Appetites
What can SCL do to meet the needs of more senior IT lawyers?…