A Brave New World Demands Brave New Thinking
Phil Lee considers the impact that Google Glass and other ‘smart glasses’ may have on privacy issues and calls for new thinking…
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Technology, Society & Justice
Carry on Automat(r)on: Legal and Ethical Issues relating to Healthcare Robots
Catherine Easton gives an overview of some of the legal and ethical issues relating to the use of robotics in healthcare…
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SCL Meeting Report: ‘AR Wars’ – Augmented Reality, Technology and the Law
Ashley Avery reports on the ‘hot topic’ seminar on augmented reality held on 24 April at Travers Smith LLP….
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Google, Googlies and Goolies
Is Google getting off lightly in its likely settlement with the EU Commission on search?…
Editorial
This is a strong issue. In normal circumstances, I would be pleased with the fact that we have so many excellent reviews of recent IT law cases, two outstanding pieces on big data and related issues and provocative pieces on the very intriguing issues that arise from bots and drones. It is so strong that…
Human Enhancement Technologies – Edging towards the Cyborg?
Dr Benjamin Farrand asks: can you be greater than the sum of your parts? He considers just some of the socio-legal problems with Human Enhancement Technologies…
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Podcast: SCL 40th Anniversary Lecture: “Big and Open – The New Data Frontiers” given by Professor Nigel Shadbolt on Thursday 21 March 2013
A recording of SCL’s 40th anniversary lecture…
Bad Bots
If you count software bots as robots then robots are already being used to deceive and exploit people who mistake them for humans. Miranda Mowbray enlightens you….
Data Protection: Facebook and the Right Kind of Establishment
Julia Hörnle looks at a German case concerning the application of EU data protection law to foreign service providers and similar questions arising elsewhere in the EU, all of which raise issues about what amounts to the right kind of establishment…
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The Aerial Gaze: Regulating Domestic Drones in the UK
Lachlan Urquhart considers the various issues raised by drones…
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