In data protection circles, the phrase “Safe Harbour” doesn’t have a great reputation. Wikipedia describes those as setting hard boundaries around an area where “a vaguer, overall standard” applies. Famously, in 2015, the European Court of Justice struck down the data protection Safe Harbor arrangement negotiated between the European Commission and the US Government. So […]
The Government’s new White Paper on Online Harms is strikingly wide in both the range of harms identified, and the range of entities asked to play a part in reducing them. The White Paper envisages that harmful content could be spread through any online facility that allows individual users to share content, to find content […]
[Re-purposing an unused introduction to my full paper – “See no… Hear no… Track no..: Ethics and the Intelligent Campus” – that was published in the Journal of Information Rights, Policy and Practice this week] The Intelligent Campus is a microcosm of the Smart City. Smart cities, according to Finch and Tene, may be “more […]