http://www.lexferenda.com daithí mac sithigh's blog on cyberlaw and more Thu, 08 May 2008 16:32:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The front page of the National edition (though not the other widely circulated edition, the City Final) of the Evening Herald has the headline : "PRIVACY CHIEF CAUGHT OUT BY HACKER" and the subheading "SECURITY BREACH : Data Protection Commissioner left red-faced by blogger". Fiona Dillon wrote the article, ... http://www.lexferenda.com/08052008/the-blogger-the-commissioner-and-the-journalist-but-not-the-hacker/ Jonathan Zittrain's book, The Future of the Internet - And How To Stop It, is published this May in the UK. I received a review copy and read it over the course of a weekend, and then got distracted and didn't write up the scrawl that was the review. ... http://www.lexferenda.com/29042008/the-future-of-the-internet-and-how-to-stop-it/ The Right Honourable, Deputy Governor General, Privy Councillor (not to mention Chief Justice of Canada) Beverly McLachlin will give a lecture in the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin next month (information here). The topic is "Human Rights Protection in Canada" and all are welcome, but please take the ... http://www.lexferenda.com/28042008/beverly-mclachlin-trinity-college-6th-may/ (Follow-up to Fontastic). Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC, has two programmes that deal with technology and culture and law and politics in a particularly useful way. The first is Search Engine (welcomed with joy here; website here) and the second one is Spark (website here). I've been meaning to ... http://www.lexferenda.com/27042008/fontastic-2/ So, recently things have been quiet here. Perhaps it's balancing the flurry of posts during the BILETA conference in March! I'll try to keep things a bit more regular for the next few weeks anyway. The teaching year has come to an end (although exams lie ahead, and they ... http://www.lexferenda.com/27042008/springing-into-spring/ Ofcom (the UK communications regulator) is carrying out a review of public service broadcasting. In connection with the review, they have taken the wrapping off a blog, the Ofcom PSB Review Blog, which is an interesting way to add some spice to the familiar 'public consultation' ballet. Just ... http://www.lexferenda.com/10042008/ofblog/ With thanks to slaw.ca for the heads-up, I'm delighted to see that the Osgoode Hall Review of Law and Policy has now appeared (here). It is a "new, online legal journal created and managed by students at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, Canada" (where I ... http://www.lexferenda.com/10042008/osgoode-hall-review-of-law-and-policy/ Spotted at Waterstone's in Glasgow last week. Photo taken with cameraphone. And no, it wasn't April 1st. http://www.lexferenda.com/06042008/honesty-2008/ A blast from the media law past in today's Observer, where we learn that the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) (or a member of its classification committee in a personal capacity - you decide) has invited Nigel Wingrove to resubmit 'Visions of Ecstasy' (don't get excited, it's just a ... http://www.lexferenda.com/06042008/visions-of-wingrove/ Now tell me search engines and databases are bland neutral tools and the Internet means censorship is impossible? U.S. Funded Health Search Engine Blocks 'Abortion' (Wired) Popline makes abortion a dirty word (The Galloping Beaver) American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom When I see this sort story, some people tell me that it's ... http://www.lexferenda.com/05042008/popline/