data protection
Interesting shift from Twitter [https://support.twitter.com/articles/20172527]: > If you live outside the United States, our services are now provided to you by Twitter International Company, our company based in Dublin, Ireland. Twitter International Company will be responsible for handling your account information under Irish privacy and
julian assange
Nice post on the New Statesman from David Allen Green [http://jackofkent.com], attempting to bring legal facts to the many consipracy-ish theories around the Julian Assange situation [http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2012/08/legal-myths-about-assange-extradition] .
Glyn asks the question [http://egrommet.net/2011/05/13/facebook-and-twitter-listed-in-uk-media-injunction/] on pretty much everybody’s mind today in our little social media journalism bubble: > Just how do the authorities impose injunctions on users of social media if that site isn’t within the territorial jurisdiction of that authority?
gagging orders
Not really had much to say on this, beyond what I said back when it was all about Trafigura [https://onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/10/the_day_twitter_destroyed_a_gagging_orde.html]. But here are some interesting links that have crossed my radar: * Charlie Beckett gives us a quick
apple
Liveblogged notes from a talk by Tim Wu about the book The Rise and Fall or Information Empires, given at the RSA, London
Blogging
Judith Townend [http://posterous.com/people/4wjLiFjs3sWt], she who has given up life at journalism.co.uk for PhDing, is running a survey around media law and online publishers/bloggers [http://fromtheonline.com/2010/08/20/whats-a-journalist-and-do-they-understand-law/] . Help academia flourish by filling it out [https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=
employers
David Lacey [http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/david_lacey/], one of our many bloggers, was in sunny Sutton this afternoon, being treated to lunch by the Computer Weekly [http://www.computerweekly.com] team. I was invited along and, not being one to refuse a free Italian meal, accepted. Now, I
bloggers
So, Code of Conduct [http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/draft_bloggers_1.html], hmm? Setting boundaries on our online debates? Interesting idea. And one I’m late to, I know. I’ve been letting my thoughts on the matter stew slowly in my brain over the last week.
Blogging
This is profoundly disturbing: Death Threats in the Blogosphere [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/03/26/death-threats-in-the-blogosphere/] > In her latest post, Kathy Sierra reports that she has been receiving increasingly disturbing threats (death threats, and of sexual nature), to the point that she has cancelled her appearance at ETech
candids
There’s an interesting piece over on Boing Boing about the subject of a candid street photo suing the photographer who exhibited and sold the image. Boing Boing: Photographer sued by subject over long-distance street shot [http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/01/photographer_sued_by.html]: British law traditionally
crime
Americans reading this story [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3010949.stm] will probably be struck with disbelief. I know I am.
law
…is the sound of racial abuse and fist on flesh [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2651617.stm]…? Far from proven yet, but probably not a good thing for the careers of the made-on-TV band [http://www.girls-aloud.co.uk]. At least, I hope it isn’t. If