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Just a quick note to say that, while I figure out some issues with themes (that’s what gives the blog its pretty look), I’ve reverted to the default theme. That’s why things look so plain right now. All the content is as it usually is. Please hold…
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As previewed here, a report on this morning’s privacy-and-the-Web jamboree. Lawyer Caroline Campbell introduced the symposium on “Letting it all hang out”, sponsored by Digital Media Forum and taking place as part of the Darklight festival, and handed things over to Prof. Daniel Solove (website), the special guest. (And I discovered that it’s [...]

Letting it all hang out : Privacy vs publicity in the virtual world
I’m looking forward to this seminar on privacy and publicity taking place as part of the Darklight festival this Friday. Daniel Solove (GWU Law School) is the keynote speaker; for an idea of what’s he’s done in the past, take a look [...]

The informative Legal Post blog from the (Canadian) Financial Post notes the suggestion that co-workers involved in an, um, consensual social relationship, should sign a contract, as reported in the (US) ABA Journal. To confirm that they “independently and collectively, desire to undertake and pursue a mutually consensual social and/or amorous relationship.” Lots [...]

Whoops! Sorry about the downtime for the last day or so. We’re back now. Happy Bloomsday. While I have your attention, perhaps skip the breakfast but don’t forget to read the celebratory Blawg Review at cearta.ie.

After an extraordinarily long wait, the decision in Dillon v DPP [2007] IEHC 480 has finally been published on the website of the Courts Service. It was announced in court in March 2007, delivered in November 2007, and published online in the last couple of weeks. (I last whinged about it in January).
On [...]

Two different ways to reconsider the role of your iPhone or iPod Touch: via Wired’s Gadgets blog, a great mashup of a Moleskin notebook and said device, and in the print edition of MacFormat magazine (Summer 2008), deputy editor Chris Plin argues that the iPhone is in fact the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, with [...]

My alma mater, PhD venue and current employer, Trinity College Dublin, joined the world of iTunes U this month. As has the Open University, the only other institution that I have a qualification from. I love them both, but am particularly happy to see the TCD contribution, as I know some of the [...]

The Berkman Center invited me to write an essay for its Publius project (”Essays and conversations about constitutional moments on the Net collected by the Berkman Center“), responding to a very interesting piece by the great Lewis Hyde, who called his contribution “Freedom of Listening: An 18th-century root for net neutrality“. My piece, “The [...]

The possible (mis)use of US federal law designed to deal with hacking for the purpose of the (admittedly tragic) Megan Meier/Lori Drew case is scary. In short, after a high-profile situation where a young person committed suicide after what appears to be a pattern of harassment conducted via MySpace, it emerged that the mother [...]