panGloss

A UK-based cyberlaw blog by Lilian Edwards. Specialising in online privacy and security law, cybercrime, online intermediary law (including eBay and Google law), e-commerce, digital property, filesharing and whatever captures my eye:-) Based at The Law School of Strathclyde University . From January 2011, I will be Professor of E-Governance at Strathclyde University, and my email address will be lilian.edwards@strath.ac.uk .

Saturday, November 28, 2009

ZDNet, Wi Fi and the Digital Economy Bill

ZDNet is reporting , rather relevantly to Current Times, that a pub owner running an open wi fi hotspot has been "fined £8,000"...

Downfall Meets Peer review

Thursday, November 26, 2009

OK I said I'd stop but..

.. then OUT-Law asked me to comment on the implications of the Digital Economy Bill, especially for organisations and businesses that provid...

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

PS Digital Britain footnote

Time to leave this bone alone and do some proper work, but I can't resist noting the Digital Britain's team responses to criticisms...

Monday, November 23, 2009

Mandy and Me: some thoughts on the Digital Economy Bill

So, once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, where the breach is of copyright of course. First a brief summary of the terrain. Cl...

Friday, November 20, 2009

Incredulity

.. is my new middle name. The Digital Economy Bill will be released at 7.30am tomorrow and will, it seems, include not only the anticipated...

Thursday, November 19, 2009

here we go, here we go..

The Digital Economy Bill is nigh: " Digital economy bill Ensuring a world-class digital future following the Digital Britain White Pa...

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Privacy and Facebook, IGF style

My esteemed colleague Ian Brown of the OII has been off presenting our joint research on privacy and saocial networking sites at the IGF in ...

Monday, November 09, 2009

New DP blog

Another useful discovery - DP Thinker - Pangloss isn't sure to whom we owe the pleasure though. Of course it's clearly a matter of ...

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Lisbon Treaty We Salute You

I almost thought I would never live to see the day but yes the Lisbon Treaty has cleared its final hurdle and will become European law possi...

Monday, November 02, 2009

Death, assets and virtual worlds

I'm briefly quoted in this timely article in the New York Times on virtual assets and what to do with them after death.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

TalkTalk vs Mandy??

Two days ago Pangloss, commenting on Mandelson's newly elaborated plans to introduce a UK "3 Strikes", added; Interesting thou...

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Google Street View

Just discovered this wonderful Pixar-esque video of how Google Street View protects privacy. If only life was really like this!!

Mandelson ploughs on

Pangloss feels compelled to report on yesterday's doings at the C&binet meeting (stupid name..) The Beeb reports Mandelson as follo...

Death and Facebook

Ok back to business as usual.. Pangloss is always pleased to see things she's been lecturing about for a year turn into reality, and he...

Monday, October 26, 2009

A sad but True Tale of Non-Honest Non-Chartered Accountants

This is a bit of a departure from normal practice. But what after all is the point of running something as self indulgent a waste of time as...

Friday, October 23, 2009

Oh dear

Via b2fxxx. comes the news that the Council has indeed shoved through the deeply unsatisfactory compromise version of Amendment 138 to the ...

Monday, October 19, 2009

Security theatre FTW

I must try this en route to the RUSI CyberSecurity Conference I'm speaking at on Thursday:)

Friday, October 09, 2009

New UK Internet Libel case coming?

Thanks for the heads up from @loveandgarbage (c/o Twitter) for the following news from David Osler, author of Dave's Part , who is faci...

What Twitter is For # 102

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