In another in our series of articles inspired by the recent SCL Technology Law Futures Conference, Rob Buckingham looks at the reality of developments in the UK concerning robotics and autonomous systems, in the context of the coming explosion in the applications of AI…
Roger Bickerstaff sees a need for Tech lawyers to get more involved in the development of the regulation that affects their core work…
Flora Blackett-Ord reports on the talk from Dylan Evans on ‘The Great AI Swindle’ which was the evening keynote for the latest SCL Technology Law Futures Conference…
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Daniel Trottier reminds us that not all the characteristics of smart cities will be planned and controlled…
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Too often a technology’s capacity and curiosity about its limits leads to an unremitting focus on achieving a goal without considering the desirability of the goal. Smart Cities may be no different. David Murakami Wood offers a refreshing focus on the links between smart cities and surveillance….
The principles which underpin the Smart Cities initiatives are rarely seen as applicable to smaller communities but, as Branka Dimitrijevic shows, they are often equally valid in such contexts…
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Special Focus The focus of this issue is Smart Cities. We have nine articles taking different stances on the topic. All of this was inspired by an event held in Glasgow at the end of March, Designing Smart Cities – opportunities and regulatory challenges (jointly organised by CREATe, Horizon and Strathclyde University). A full resource…
Latest on the massive support for this weekend’s Online Courts Hackathon…
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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…
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….