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« Older EntriesImplementing the E-Communications Convention in Canada – Some Issues
The Uniform Law Conference has asked for model legislation to implement the UNCITRAL Convention on the use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts (the E-Communications Convention, or the ECC). In order to prepare this legislation, one needs to answer a number of policy questions — and then some drafting questions.
I have done an issues paper [...]
Slaw’s EasyReader
We’ve introduced a new feature to the website: EasyReader. It’s essentially the ability to read any entry in much larger type and isolated from surrounding material. The link to enable you to do this is the small image of a page with a plus sign in the corner — — that will appear to [...]
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Slaw Retweets 14/02-10/03/10
Here’s a selection from the last few weeks of tweets that I and others think might interest those who don’t use Twitter or who don’t follow the authors of these tweets.The source is shown by the @xxxx at the end of the retweet. If none appears, it’s because I’m the source.
If you are on Twitter [...]
Yosie Saint-Cyr
We’re pleased indeed to announce that Yosie Saint-Cyr has joined Slaw as a regular contributor. Yosie was called to the Quebec bar in 1988, where she practised employment and labour law until 1999. For over 10 years Yosie has been the Managing Editor of the Human Resources and Compliance Collection from First Reference and [...]
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Is Use of Computers for Ticket-Buying Criminal?
Internet Law News today reports on the arrest of four people in the US for fraud and unauthorized access to computers — at least I think that’s what’s going on. Here’s the story:
Four Men Charged In Computerized Online Ticket Scam
Four men accused of using a network of computers and automated software to buy up online [...]
Online Voting in Alberta or Elsewhere
According to a report by Richard Liebrecht of the QMI Agency:
Alberta Musing Online Election VotingNew election rules have cleared the way for Internet and electronic voting, which could come to Alberta as early as 2013. “Obviously that online voting is something that’s on the forefront of people’s minds … people say, ‘I can do my [...]
Spying On Students Through Their Computers
Apparently, according to Boing Boing, a high school in Pennsylvania supplied students with laptop computers … with the unusual and unannounced feature that the school could remotely turn on the webcams installed in the computers and watch the students away from the school, such as at home, without the students knowing about it.
A lot of [...]
Identifying Lawyers — and Others
Stephen Mason and Nicholas Bohm have an interesting article, “Identity and its verification”, published in Computer Law & Security Review, Volume 26, Number 1, January 2010, 43 – 51. (Professor Stephen Mason has written a book on electronic signatures and runs a journal on similar topics. Nicholas Bohm is a security expert.)
It’s available on [...]
Slaw Retweets 4-14/02/10
Here’s a selection from the last week or so of tweets that I and others think might interest those who don’t use Twitter or who don’t follow the authors of these tweets. (Apologies for having lost a week somewhere.)
The source is shown by the @xxxx at the end of the retweet. If none appears, it’s [...]
UK Web Jurisdiction Case Over Hate Literature
Out-law.com reports a recent decision of the Court of Appeal for England and Wales, R. v. Sheppard and Whittle, upholding a conviction for publishing hate literature though the material was stored on servers in California.
The connecting factor was that a “substantial measure of the activities” of the accused took place in England.
This is consistent with [...]
Privacy Expectations Despite Weak Passwords and File Sharing?
If one has a weak password for one’s web-based personal information, is it reasonable to conclude that one has a reduced expectation of privacy with respect to that information?
(Here’s an English list (from 2006) of the 10 most common password and a list of the 500 worst ones, from the point of view of security.)
If [...]
Privacy vs. Reputation
An English court has refused an injunction against the publication of the story of an alleged affair between a well-known football player and a teammate’s girlfriend: Terry v. Persons Unknown [2010] EWHC 119 (QB).
English law has recently given a good deal of protection to the privacy of celebrities, so some people have wondered if that [...]
Save Slaw as PDF
From the people who brought you Hovercards before Twitter — indeed, before they even had a name — now comes “Save as PDF.” We’ve added a small link below each post in the “Share:” section that invites you to download that post as a PDF file. Now you can collect all of your favourites in [...]
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Should People Commenting on an Election Have to Use Their Real Names?
The government of South Australia has recently adopted a law that requires people commenting on the forthcoming state election to use their real names, and media will have to retain the names and addresses for six months. The requirement appears to apply to bloggers and comments on blogs etc.
Unsurprisingly, not everyone likes this.
Is it fair [...]
Uk Internet Registrars Get Authority to Block Sites for Alleged Criminal Activity
According to a piece on Out-Law.Com, Nominet, the UK domain administrator, is allowing domain registrars for dot.uk domains to shut down web sites if there are credible allegations of criminal activity on those sites.
This is not supposed to happen with allegations of civil wrongs, such as copyright infringement (though if infringement is an offence under [...]
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