ULC_ECOMM-L

John Gregory, impressive lawyer and occasional Slawyer, runs an email list (ULC_ECOMM-L) about electronic commerce and allied matters. I think of that list as life in the slower electronic lane, which is not a disparagement, but rather an appreciation of a pre-blogging information technology that was perhaps less in your face (though we’ve all been on email lists that fire entries like Gatling guns). If there were a web interface to go along with it, I’d suggest you take a look. But because there isn’t, let me give you a quick run over the topics broached in the last couple of months.

Typically John will pose a question, often arising from a recent judgment here or abroad, and then somewhere between half a dozen and a dozen of the list members will offer their views. The quality is high, the tone relaxed. And the recent topics:

• a judgment compelling the electronic release of municipal voting rolls
• posting images of people online who have not consented
• cyber-liability insurance
• liability for the cost of electronic data breaches
• a law against phony online reviews

If this sounds like your cup of e-tea, you might let John know you’re interested in joining the list. I’m sure that if you responded by a comment to this post, he would follow up.