A UK-based cyberlaw blog by Lilian Edwards. Specialising in online privacy and security law, cybercrime, online intermediary law (including eBay and Google law), e-commerce, digital property and whatever captures my eye:-) Based at ILAWS, the Institute for Law and the Web at Southampton
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I decided to write up a user friendly version of the wi fi story for the Grauniad, as you can see here. Many thanks to Francis Davey, inter alia counsel for Theyworkforyou.com, who pointed out the difficulties of the word "agreement" in terms of...
ZDNet is reporting , rather relevantly to Current Times, that a pub owner running an open wi fi hotspot has been "fined £8,000" for infringing downloads by its customers. The information was provided by the Cloud, who provided the hot spot...
.. then OUT-Law asked me to comment on the implications of the Digital Economy Bill, especially for organisations and businesses that provide wi fi networks; and this made me think a bit more about how unworkable this whole scheme is.
As I said to...
Time to leave this bone alone and do some proper work, but I can't resist noting the Digital Britain's team responses to criticisms, having been directed towards it by the Beeb. As it happens, despite the impression the BBC gives, these responses date...
