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Im briefly reviving Pangloss to publicise something I think important that just came out  as  a broad hint from the Research briefing team at the House of Lords. This just came out: http://...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-to-solve-problem-like-brexit-no-cats.html

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, filesharing and whatever captures my eye:-) Based at The Law School of Strathclyde University [http://www.strath.ac.uk/law/]. From January 2011, I will be Professor of E-Governance at Strathclyde University, and my email address will be lilian.edwards@strath.ac.uk .

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2016/06/blog-post.html

1      EVERYONE THINKS IT’S A BAD IDEA, SO WHY HASN’T IT GONE YET, ALREADY. No they don’t, actually.  Just the people who get to write in mass media. Few people in Europe, and fewer...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2014/08/three-myths-that-need-nailed-about.html

Tuesday 15th July 2014 To all Members of Parliament, Re: An open letter from UK internet law academic experts On Thursday 10 July the Coalition Government (with support from the Opposition)...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2014/07/open-letter-on-data-retention-and.html

Google has implemented the "right to be forgotten" imposed by Google Spain on 13 May 2014. At slightly over two weeks for a response, this puts most actual governments to shame :-) Having failed...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2014/05/google-remembers-after-only-two-weeks.html

I  was interviewed yesterday by the Metro free newspaper on this point , following the onlineprotest tweets by many Mozilla employees in the US that they did not want a boss who had donated mo...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2014/04/can-you-criticise-your-boss-on-twitter.html

New Scientist, the leading UK magazine on science and technology, recently covered GikII , the world’s first law, technology and popular culture workshop, which has run annually for 8 years a...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2013/09/gikii-in-new-scientist-and-went-to-beach.html

Like most UK women of any sense, my first reaction on reading some of the vicious threats of rape tweeted at the likes of Caroline Criado Perez and Stella Creasy was a heartfelt desire to track ...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2013/07/what-are-police-for-twitter-abuse-and.html

While I'm reviving Pangloss, people might be interested to take a look at work in progress lecture I gave recently at the  University of Goettingen in Germany on "The Death of Data Protection" e...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-death-of-data-protection.html

The world woke up this morning to a rising crest of hysteria about the arrival of  a Royal baby, and the sound of David Cameron making a determined lunge to secure the Daily Mail/Mumsnet vote be...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2013/07/porn-blocking-season-is-here-again.html

For any out there wondering how you start preparing to give a GIkII talk , here's a recent story that sums up the entire ethos I feel.. PRINTER IS COMING: GAME OF THRONES FAN FASHIONS 3-D MODEL...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-to-go-to-gikii-beginners-guide.html

GIKII 2013 – CALL FOR PAPERS SUN, SAND AND GIKII VIII When robots, drones, autonomous agents, Facebook stalking, teleportation, 3D printing, MMORPGS, science fiction, computer games and supe...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2013/05/gikii-2013-goes-to-beach.html

Excellent comments , among many such, in piece on the harmful effects of REF in the Grauniad: "For my money, the real issue is managerialism. Senior administrators decide everything now - not a...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2013/05/ref-and-other-dangerous-animals.html

Surliminal has been a busy little bee lately since the official CREATe launch  at end January (and not just because she’s read the entirety of the first four Game of Thones novels since then...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2013/04/life-death-privacy-action-or-spring-is.html

 SCHOOL OF LAW LECTURER/SENIOR LECTURER IN IT AND/OR DIGITAL IP LAW (£33,230 - £53,233 PER ANNUM) The School is seeking to appoint a Lecturer or a Senior Lecturer to strengthen its portfolio...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2013/02/vacancy-in-itip-law-at-strathclyde.html

RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN DATA MINING AND COPYRIGHT LAW  This 3 year full-time PhD studentship is offered with a start date of January 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful ca...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2012/11/come-study-with-me-phd-studentship-in.html

Like most the UK, Pangloss went to see the new Bond flick Skyfall at the weekend. It's still a right rollicking ride, hugely enjoyable and proudly British, and Pangloss loved most of it (especial...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2012/10/skyleaks-or-dye-another-day.html

Pangloss was honoured earlier in September to be asked to speak at the launch of the Lisbon Council’s new publication on Intellectual Property and Innovation: A Framework for 21st Century Gro...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2012/09/creativity-innovation-and-all-that-jazz.html

It's become a Pangloss tradition at the start of the new academic yesr to find a new video i can use to scare the students. THis year's conveniently just arrived courtesy of @niccuzor - thanks Ni...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2012/09/201213-video.html

 EDIT: this piece brought in a lot of reaction, for which I am grateful. Partly as a result, a rather more tidied version can now be found here   which you are suggested to jump to (though do c...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2012/09/section-127-communications-act-2003.html

This is the most stunning infographic I have seen in some time on the changes the Internet has wrought over a decade : The Internet A Decade Later I may use this to kick off the newly revamped ...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-internet-decade-later.html

CALL FOR PAPERS: 7TH GIKII WORKSHOP, 17-18 SEPTEMBER 2012 UEA LONDON 102 Middlesex Street London E1 7EZ UK It’s harder than it used to be to write a Call for Papers for GikII, the...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2012/07/7th-gikii-2012-call-for-papers.html

Pangloss is intrigued and slightly amazed to discover that a well known download site called "Rnbxclusive" was taken down yesterday by authority of SOCA, the UK's Serious and Organised Crime Agen...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2012/02/strange-case-of-soca-and-conspiracy-to.html

Department of you can't make this stuff up, via Thomas Otter :-)

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2012/01/happy-new-year.html

This analysis is so good it's worth quoting from not just retweeting. > But a social network isn’t a product; it’s a place. Like a bar > or a club, a social network ne...

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-google-is-doomed.html