No continent has as high a proportion of older people as Europe. In this paper, we report the findings of an empirical project examining the legal advice needs of older people. An important element of the project also sought information…

This article examines the merger between AOL and the Huffington Post. The broader issues around the merger will be investigated, especially the implication for rights, in particular free expression, and their conditions for exercise and actual exercise online. One major…

Cloud Computing enables the dynamic provision of resources on-demand over the Internet.  The key advantage for users is that data becomes accessible from anywhere and at any time. However, to the extent that they lose control over the infrastructure, users…

After a few remarks about the relationship between law and technology in the Knowledge society and the position that ICT is not a kind of application of law to new needs and tools of the society but something that is…

This paper aims to assess the proposed draft Regulation on data protection in light of the information-dense, borderless world in which data readily flows. The most portentous reforms are discussed, including data transfers to third countries and the ‘right to…

The purpose of this paper is to raise issues in relation to the media coverage of rape. The Julian Assange scandal, which involved two women making accusations of rape and sexual molestation against him, recently sparked debate as to whether…

The Digital Economy Act 2010 was hurried into existence in the dying days of the last Labour government, and contains powers designed to resist unauthorised file sharing that are due to be implemented by an Initial Obligations Code authored by…

New ISP-led approaches to proactively combating botnets must engage privacy and access concerns from the outset or else run afoul of both the law and public opinion 

In 2010, the New Zealand Government commissioned a review on the ability of New Zealand’s regulatory systems to manage the potential health, safety and environmental risks posed by manufactured nanomaterials. While some of the gaps identified by this review are…

The present work shows the changes that have been happening in the learning process, where the relation professor/student stops being hierarchized   vertically as it used to be in the past, where the professor spoke ex cathedra; focusing on the aptitudes…