As any celebrity – and certain governments and law firms – will tell you, there are risks as well as benefits in being connected to publicly accessible networks. Individuals and collectives such as Wikileaks, Anonymous and LulzSec have embarrassed the US government, the law firm ACS:Law, and now Scarlett Johannson and Jessica Alba by exposing [...]
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Help Us, Copyright; You’re Our Only Hope!
September 15th, 2011 
Gareth Dickson 
Posted in copyright, North America, privacy, social media, UK and Europe, vront 
Tags: copyright, data protection, DMCA, Internet, jurisdiction, photographs, privacy 
No Comments »Scraping and peeping – it’s all the rage
October 21st, 2010 Gareth Dickson How would it feel to know that people were listening in on your private conversations and were selling the stories they heard so that you could be targeted with junk mail? Would it make a difference if those conversations, discussing an illness or trying to find comfort after a tragedy, took place remotely, rather than [...]
Posted in data protection, North America, privacy, UK and Europe Tags: copyright, data protection, Google, Internet, picasa, privacy No Comments »How dangerous is your iPad?
June 16th, 2010 Gareth Dickson If a picture paints a thousand words, and the pen is mightier than the sword, just how dangerous is an iPad? At first glance, it looks safe enough. From a design point of view, it’s hardly adventurous, looking very much like Dom Joly‘s Trigger Happy iPhone (I think my favorite is at 3mins15seconds, but watch [...]
Posted in North America, privacy, social media, UK and Europe Tags: Apple, iPad, privacy No Comments »Check out these legs!
May 28th, 2010 Gareth Dickson It’s uncommon for stories to keep going for much longer after they’ve hit the front pages, but the recent Google wifi-spying story looks like it’s got the legs to run and run and that it’s nowhere near over yet. In the most recent development, Google has apparently decided not to hand over all the data [...]
Posted in data protection, North America, privacy, social media, UK and Europe Tags: data protection, Europe, Google, privacy No Comments »Trying very hard not to be evil
May 8th, 2010 Gareth Dickson I just watched an interesting video about Google and the various markets they have (and/or might have) a finger in. According to the video, Andy Graves, CEO of Intel, says Google is a company “on steroids” with “a finger in every industry”. I’m not sure that the “steroid” analogy is a good one, and the [...]
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