So. As I said, I only managed to make it to the second day of the fifth edition of Gikii, but it was a very full day, and shows the strength of the concept (there is definitely an emerging Gikii aesthetic!) and the wide range of contributors. I should say that my immediate impressions and various [...]
By Daithí
– July 8, 2010
Prof. Lilian Edwards (bio, blog, @lilianedwards ) spoke at Wolfson College in Cambridge as part of the Arcadia Programme (blog). With this particular project, the audience included quite a number of librarians (some involved in 23 Things Cambridge – worth checking out), as well as lawyers, techies, and other interested parties. The chair for the evening [...]
By Daithí
– June 2, 2010
[Note: post republished Jan 2010 due to an error by admin (Daithí) with no change to Oisín's text.] I’m delighted to present a guest post here – first time I’m doing this, but a very appropriate choice of topic. Oisín Tobin (who will start his own blog soon!) is a scholar and PhD Candidate in [...]
By Daithí
– December 1, 2009
This post is a slightly more structured version of the report I presented at the end of the first day, with the slides available here. It’s reconstructed from speaking notes and is presented to give virtual attendees a chance to sample my dubious words of wisdom. I should add that I’m very happy to receive [...]
By Daithí
– July 7, 2009
Warning: liveblog, my impressions, not direct quotes, and it’s a free-flowing roundtable. Also using simultaneous translation in parts which will have an impact, particularly on phrases and quotes. Don’t shoot the messenger(s)! Back after coffee for a roundtable discussion on legal issues of all sorts. In the chair is Raquel Xalabarder, who makes the perceptive [...]
By Daithí
– July 6, 2009
Warning: liveblog, my impressions, not direct quotes, will link to actual presentation when available. Don’t shoot the messenger! Our first session is the keynote address by the excellent James Grimmelmann, of New York University and more. He’s talking about Facebook as an example of social networking and privacy as an example of a controversial issue [...]
By Daithí
– July 6, 2009
This is some sort of a liveblog. I’ll make mistakes, and I’m multitasking, being selective and also working through translation in some cases, so this is an impression rather than a transcript. Enjoy. Good morning! With all the usual health warnings (I’ve adapted mine above from David Weinberger‘s model – thanks…), I will present (both [...]
By Daithí
– July 6, 2009
A recent blog post (or as Sabrina Dent would say, a blog) by Kristen Osenga (guest blogger at the legal group blog Concurring Opinions) contains quite a few ideas worth thinking about, and the comments are good too. Asking Are Law Professors Allowed to Have On-Line Friends?, she puts forward an edited version of a [...]
By Daithí
– November 20, 2008
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 pronounced So-Love, [...]
By Daithí
– June 27, 2008
Late to the plate on this one, too. Still plenty of time to submit what you’ve got, though. GIKIII takes place at the Oxford Internet Institute on September 24/25 – be there or be an equiangular equilateral convex polygon. All the info is here. Not sure if I’ll be there this year, though I’ve been [...]
By Daithí
– June 12, 2008
Hello from the BILETA (British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association) annual conference at Glasgow Caledonian University in lovely, rainy Scotland. The conference (agenda, abstracts etc available here) is taking place today and tomorrow. I’m speaking about ‘Expression 2.0‘ tomorrow afternoon. This morning, I popped into a talk by Dr. Carlisle George (Middlesex) on [...]
By Daithí
– March 27, 2008
It’s good to be back. Don’t ask. This week, a lot of electrons have been spilled about Facebook’s new advertising/information/obscure-tort-law-breaking systems. The excellent Fred Stutzman (a fellow participant on this year’s Summer Doctoral Programme) has been investigating the system, and has just published this insightful report on one particular implementation of the new system. He [...]
By Daithí
– November 11, 2007
Here, at last, is a review of the GikII workshop held in London on September 19th. Rather than link to each paper individually (as this review covers the entire programme), this is a link to the index of all presentations, ready for download (most are powerpoints, a few are full papers). The affiliations (university or [...]
By Daithí
– September 29, 2007
Some notes on sessions that are out of sequence: Lorraine Kisselburgh spoke about the ‘social structure and discursive construction’ of privacy – with a surprisingly practical approach, given the very theoretical title! Her methods include interviews, network analysis and more, and she is looking in particular at privacy settings in Facebook etc. There were strong [...]
By Daithí
– July 27, 2007
At the weekend, Slashdot highlighted a Harvard Law Review piece on photos, privacy and the Internet; wondering about the position of ‘tagging’ on Facebook and other services. (I’ve dealt with this issue before here, indirectly. How this works is: Person A has a facebook account and is friends with Person B Person B takes photos [...]
By Daithí
– June 6, 2007
Very interesting overview of privacy issues in “Does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook?” (Flash). Look at the discussion of the privacy policy and the license you grant to the site owners, in particular. I saw this front-page Toronto Star story on Thursday (on how the Ontario government is blocking access to [...]
By Daithí
– May 7, 2007
I’ve been interested in this conversation over at Blogorrah. Not content with finding endless (and legitimate) humour in the staged publicity photos beloved of Irish PR agencies, they’ve started a “Bebo Of The Day” feature. The site is fairly popular these days, what with some glowing Irish Times coverage, and has recently started to take [...]
By Daithí
– February 11, 2007
Here are my (belated) notes on Prof. Gavin Phillipson’s presentation on English privacy law, given to the first evening session of the Dublin Legal Workshop this year. It’s all well and good to take notes with a laptop, but finding time to tidy them up is another matter entirely! I also add some comments of [...]
By Daithí
– February 4, 2007
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