SOCA and website takedowns
News that SOCA has reached out of the UK and into the .com domain to take down a music download website has provoked quite a reaction in the twittersphere (at least, that slightly geeky, slightly legal, slightly subversive segment of it that is visible...
Time for a rant…
... about some really irritating developments in TV advertising.I apoplogise in advance, but I think some of these peeves have been simmering for a while now, and it would be healthier all round if I can permit myself a little vent. There are two adver...
Un-bricking a System76 Starling netbook
In case it may be of help to someone else in the same situation...I have a System76 Starling netbook, which until this week was running Ubuntu 9 (Karmic Koala). That's the release it came factory-installed with, and as long as it was getting patched an...
EU cookie regulations and consent
As you are probably aware, a revision to the EU's e-Privacy Directive was recently transposed into UK law as the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2011, or PECR. PECR means that, as of May 26th 2011, UK websites are required to obtain u...
EU cookie regulations and consent
As you are probably aware, a revision to the EU's e-Privacy Directive was recently transposed into UK law as the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2011, or PECR. PECR means that, as of May 26th 2011, UK websites are required to obtain u...
Marking Commissioner Malmström’s homework
Julian Huppert MP has broken new ground today (as far as I'm aware) by "crowd-sourcing" views on the newly-announced proposal for an EU Directive on Attacks Against Information Systems.Having looked at the press release, my first impression of the Dire...
Marking Commissioner Malmström’s homework
Julian Huppert MP has broken new ground today (as far as I'm aware) by "crowd-sourcing" views on the newly-announced proposal for an EU Directive on Attacks Against Information Systems.Having looked at the press release, my first impression of the Dire...
Privacy of emails
By coincidence, the theme of the previous blog post (expectations of privacy in correspondence, electronic or otherwise) also crops up in an article by Simon Jenkins in the Guardian today. Jenkins' piece is actually about media ethics, but it's prompte...
Privacy of emails
By coincidence, the theme of the previous blog post (expectations of privacy in correspondence, electronic or otherwise) also crops up in an article by Simon Jenkins in the Guardian today. Jenkins' piece is actually about media ethics, but it's prompte...
The Privacy of Emails
A colleague has alerted me to a December 2010 ruling on email privacy, in the US 6th Circuit court. There's a brief article here from DC law firm K&L Gates.The 6th Circuit delivers a welcome reversal of the July 2010 ruling in Rehberg v Hodges, in ...
The Privacy of Emails
A colleague has alerted me to a December 2010 ruling on email privacy, in the US 6th Circuit court. There's a brief article here from DC law firm K&L Gates.The 6th Circuit delivers a welcome reversal of the July 2010 ruling in Rehberg v Hodges, in ...
Anonymity on the Net
There's an interesting piece on the New York Times site by Professor Stanley Fish, titled "Anonymity and the Dark Side of the Internet".A quick disclaimer to start with, though: bear in mind that what you're reading here is my comment on an article in ...
