laws in comment and analysis
Legal Eye: Europe's copyright controversy
Comment If a member state's copyright laws allow for private copying of already-bought material, the Copyright Directive 2001/29 demands that "adequate compensation" be made to the rights holder. Rumblings from the EU about the controversial copyright levy... [18 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: Blogging cowboys ride the Wild Web
Comment Indeed there are a range of laws that can catch offensive messages posted online, as well as other provisions, ranging from specialist intellectual property issues to incitement, that can trip up the unsuspecting blogger. [05 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die...
Comment And Moore-type laws seem to apply to data storage and everything else, and always the time to double gets shorter year on year. Written in a coffee shop in Ipswich UK and dispatched via a company wi-fi service. [14 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment Data laws Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com readers undecided whether the OS should live on or not… And data losses never seem far from the reader comments page, with this week being no exception… Another item on... [01 May 2008]
Vendors hype up compliance fears
Comment Compliance. The word strikes fear into the heart of even the hardened executive. We're warned of dire consequences if we get it wrong - especially in data security. But could it be that suppliers are talking up the issue, asks Danny Bradbury. [08 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment High-profile data breaches and new laws have put encryption back in the limelight. But organisations would be wrong to pin all their hopes on it, warns lawyer Stewart James. Earlier this month, Westminster's Joint Committee on Human Rights... [27 Mar 2008]
Just whose legislation rules the internet?
Comment Few people realise that with the rise of Google our own laws on defamation have flown out of the window. Margaret Briffa, an internet and ecommerce lawyer, tells me the position taken by Google not only makes no concession to UK or European... [05 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Protestors clueless on wireless health risks
Comment These inverse distance laws lead to the situation whereby the power entering the human head from a tower is generally less than 1,000 times smaller than that produced by a mobile. And of course the same inverse distance/power laws apply. [04 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…
Comment Media companies should stop bleating and giving the government excuses to create more laws, and use some of their vast resources to get their own house in order. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech... [28 Feb 2008]
What price compliance?
Comment Quocirca's Fran Howarth argues that rules and laws can provide companies with a business advantage if tackled in the right way. Companies are wilting under the weight of increasingly onerous government and industry-specific regulations. [07 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Apple vs Vista, jail for mobile users and the broadband swindle…
Comment But then we had laws to deal with that long before the mobile phone even existed - 'driving without due care and attention'. As already mentioned, there are already laws dealing with this - 'driving without due care and attention' and 'dangerous... [03 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... More data breaches and Google vs Wikipedia…
Comment I thought that EU Data Protection laws meant that data could not be exported to the USA without permission because of their different data protection standards. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? [20 Dec 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.12.07
Round-Up Like all good axioms it can be applied to a number of things aside from physical laws. "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction," quipped Sir Isaac Newton in a quiet moment while he wasn't unravelling rainbows. [07 Dec 2007]
Editor's blog: What your identity is worth
Comment And there will certainly be more revelations to come, and we'll continue to follow them, and to push for better laws. Write to your MP and demand changes to the law - point them at the information we've collected about US laws which could help in... [05 Dec 2007]
HMRC's missing discs: Just a warning shot
Comment Data protection laws need to be fundamentally re-evaluated, with technological solutions being brought to the fore. Evidence for these conclusions can be found in the US experience, where laws obliging organisations to report security breaches laws... [27 Nov 2007]
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