Monday, June 04, 2007

Student SCL IT Law Essay Prize

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I know some students read this blawg so this seems worth reproducing in full: "SCL Student IT Law Essay Prize 2008 Now Launched Entries...

Yet Another Survey on Surveillance

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or who will watch those who watch the watchers? Pangloss should not be so flippant or indeed, so late . The HL Constitutional Committee issu...

For Auld Lang Syne

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In a fit of nostalgia, Pangloss feels like posting that the 3rd Scottish Information Commissioner Report has been published (even though Pan...
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Want to be a Porn Star?

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.. no? well who said you got a choice? " A 17-year-old college student is taking legal action against a pornographic film company after...
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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Mum's The Word

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Another late catch up from my hols, mainly for own benefit. Mumsnet, the non-profit site run part-time by single mothers to advise on parent...

AVMS DIrective also finally passed

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Good god the EU people really want their hols don't they? This one also seems to have been going as long as I can recall.. " The ne...
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Google faces EU Regulation?

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FInally today (honest), the Art 29 WP has issued a significant letter criticising Google's privacy protection of personal data. Google i...

Rome II

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Less exciting than LJ censorship, and slightly late, but still significant: Rome II which seems to have been trundling on All My LIfe has fi...

And More LJ..

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Interesting climbdown . I guess that one can be chalked up as another, albeit belated, victory for the users in web 2.0 culture - rather as ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Live Journal Attacked by Inocents (?)

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A massive web 2.0-type censorship farrago has (yet again) engulfed Live Journal, probably the social blogging and networking site most popul...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Blogzilla: Generation Y and privacy

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Blogzilla has an interesting post on Generation Y and privacy. I am in fact usually one of the doom sayers who argues that privacy norms and...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

AllOfMP3.com declared fraudulent

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Interesting story - the IFPI raid an agent of AllOfMP3.com, the infamous Russian-based illegal download service, in London. "The indiv...
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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Web 2.0 sites beware!

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Interesting decision from the States yesterday on immunity of hosts ("service providers") under CDA s 230 (c). The Ninth Circuit C...
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Oysters Reopened

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Anonymous (which is not a very helpful name for a correspondent) asked me "Just a quick question, why are you linking to a story that i...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

The Oyster is hard to Prise Open..

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Re yesterday's query about when Oyster Card would finally roll out as a multi purpoe contactless small payments card.. look no further. ...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

PayPal plays with the big boys

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My colleague Technollama and I have long subscribed to the view that PayPal does not really fit the model of an Electronic Money Issuer und...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

OK v Hello!

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OK v Hello! has finally been decided in the House of Lords (thanks to Loveandgarbage for the tip-off.) This is NOT, it should be stressed,...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

Why oh why oh why

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Blogger took my blog away again. Now I have it back (it's like a children's tale of woe) but my entries have vanished since Nov 06. ...
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Saturday, March 17, 2007

Law and Society Conference 2007

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Paper at a conference I'm going to in Berlin in July . I'm quite intrigued actually, so there to the undoubted cynics out there :-P ...
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Monday, January 22, 2007

BILETA 2007

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BILETA is the gathering of the tribes of IT law in the UK and Europe: the must-be-seen-at conference for the old lags (or lagettes) of the I...
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