We survey some critical issues arising in pervasive applications, in particular the interplay between context-awareness and security. We shall outline the techniques adapted for guaranteeing applications to securely behave in the digital environment they are part of.

What does it mean surveillance today? I say today, because this problem belongs to the political social and legal agenda since many decades. We have an enormous bibliography on this issue, with titles like technologies of control against technologies of…

This paper describes a research project exploring the use of eBooks and e-readers for the delivery of learning materials and activities on a distance learning LLB course. The project aimed to discover whether an e-publishing platform, comprising e-reader and e-content,…

This is a special edition of the journal devoted to the legal educational papers given at or prepared for the 2012 British and Irish Law Education and
Technology Association Conference, held in the Centre for Life, Newcastle, hosted by…

Computer security applications (CSAs) are essential for ensuring information security across insecure mediums such as the Internet, however despite the reliance placed upon them empirical evidence and case studies indicate that they suffer similar quality concerns to the broader software…

This case study considers the main features of three referencing software programs - Endnote, Refworks and Zotero - and their advantages and disadvantages for legal scholars. It defines the key useful features of referencing software as being a database for…

The paper addresses the technical and legal aspects of the existing and forthcoming intelligent (“smart”) surveillance technologies that are (or are considered to be) employed in the border control application area. Such technologies provide a computerized decision-making support to border…

It seems as if privacy can be enhanced by smart CCTV. But from an ethical point of view this turns out to be false. The expansion of CCTV because of the introduction of smart CCTV could lead to more privacy…

This article aims to discuss the role that copyright plays in movements of free access, and vice versa. The doctrine has appointed, on of them, for example, the Open Access, as a new rule needed to be built into the…

The article deals with the description of components of the project Improvement of risk area security using combined methods for biometrical identification of subjects , which solves the identification of subjects through multi-factor biometric identification. The article gives a project…