Lorna Woods takes a detailed look at the judgment in Delfi v Estonia and its implications…
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PSD2 Evolved
Simon Deane-Johns updates his review of the revised proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the internal market in light of a supposedly final text….
CPD Online: SCL Foundations of IT Law: Module 10
These are questions arising from the Podcast: SCL Foundations of IT Law Programme: Module 10 – IT in a Regulated Environment. Course code HW/SFCL:OC31 CPD 2 hours….
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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…
Offensive Online Comments: Human Rights Court Ruling
The European Court of Human Rights has given its long-awaited ruling in Delfi v Estonia…
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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….