Privacy
Is ad blocking unfair?
My latest post for Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. Image: Stop! by Axel Schwenke on Flickr.
Privacy? Forget about it
Reblogged from Legal Web Watch May 2014. Insofar as we still measure column inches on the web, many yards in the last month have been devoted to commentary and analysis of the Google Spain decision, or the "right to be forgotten" as it is popularly but inaccurately known. As ever, Laurence Eastham provides some refreshing […]
We are all (micro) publishers now
Proposals for incentives as part of a new system of independent, self-regulation of the press have been refined to make sure “micro-business” blogs are outside of the scheme. [DCMS news story] I’m checking out the pretty chart and wondering why this malarky has been made so complicated. Why single out bloggers anyway as you then […]
Exposing the social graph
With the launch last week of Google’s Social Graph API we can finally start to visualise the “social graph” – the connections between people on the web. It is only relatively recently that the relationships between people have been declared explicitly on the web – on social networking sites and publicly via open standards such […]
Necessarily anonymous
Nearly Legal offers a thoughtful post on the issues connected with anonymous blogging, saying “What interests me … is the fraught conjunction of anonymity, confessional, freedom of expression, privacy, veracity, self-exposure and unwanted exposure involved here.”
Data Protection/Marketing: EU guidance on digital marketing
The EU advisory working party on data protection and privacy issues in Europe, made up of the national Data Protection Commissioners of the member states, has published an opinion on the proper interpretation and application of that part of the recent EU Directive on privacy and electronic communications which deals with direct marketing by e-mail […]
