Category: Law
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How can trust help the #PanamaPapers innocents?
The revelations from the mega-leak of data about the financial shenanigans of the wealthy and powerful, dubbed the #PanamaPapers, continue to roll out globally since the eruption last weekend opened up a Pandora’s Box (what some would call an Aladdin’s…
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Actions and consequences: what will 2016 present?
2015 was a stepping-stone year in the evolution of technology and people’s behaviours, with events that gave us greater insight into actions and consquences. A big one is the thorny matter of balancing the long-held expectation of individual privacy –…
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Tweeting a joke can be no joke
Reports emerged late last week that Twitter is deleting tweets that copy another tweeter’s jokes. The Verge reports on a writer’s request to Twitter to remove a tweet that used her content (a joke) without permission and thus infringed her…
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Why Magna Carta matters
Today, June 15, 2015, marks the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta in 1215, a document that to this day is widely considered part of the so-called unwritten constitution of the United Kingdom; and continues to be…
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The Hoover metaphor
A report last week in The Guardian about the UK digital ad market includes this text: Google and Facebook will hoover up the market between them, it says. “Hoover up?” This is not new by any means, but it is…