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Twitter/DataSift – an early ICO response
I’ve just received a response from the ICO to my initial question about whether or not they were investigating the Twitter/DataSift issue (about which I’ve just blogged here) This is the full response...
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Defamation on Twitter…
In the light of all the current interest, I’ve put together a little basic guide to defamation on twitter. This isn’t anything like ‘legal advice’, and please remember I’m an academic, not a practicing...
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Chilling out…
There’s been a lot of talk of the ‘chilling effect’ recently. The Leveson report, due out this week, is going to have a chilling effect, we’re told. Lord McAlpine’s threatened defamation suits on...
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The proof of the pudding…
The news that Lord McAlpine has started legal proceedings against Sally Bercow for libel over her tweets has been greeted in some quarters by dismay. I don’t see it that way: from an academic...
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12 days…. of privacy?
NOW ALSO AVAILABLE ON VIDEO (if you want proof that I can’t sing): here Privacy is the gift that keeps on giving…. and for privacy advocates and lawyers, this year particularly! To keep festive, here’s...
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Leveson: Bloggers and the Royal Charter
One of the immediate reactions to the last minute deal over the implementation of the Leveson recommendations was that it would hit bloggers and tweeters very hard. I’m not sure that’s really true –...
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Twitter abuse: one click to save us all?
A great deal has been said already about the twitter abuse issue – and I suspect a great deal more will be said, because this really is an important issue. The level and nature of the abuse that some...
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A Defence of Responsible Tweeting…
I presented a paper at the Society of Legal Scholars conference in Edinburgh with the title ‘Twitter Defamation: A Defence of Responsible Tweeting”. I’ve put a little movie version of the slides of my...
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The Ballad of KipperNick
In the run up to the local and European elections, I became increasingly frustrated by the way that the BBC were dealing with them. It wasn’t really something new so much as an accumulation of...
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Trolls, threats, the law and deterrence…
“Internet trolls face up to two years in jail under new laws” screamed the headline on the BBC’s website yesterday, after Chris Grayling decided to “take a stand against a baying cyber-mob”. It’s not...
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Facebook And Twitter – Handling Extremism And Disorder
After extensive consultation, FAT-HEAD has been amended to take into account its lack of clarity over costs (see 8) and the unfortunate limitation of extent (see 9). Facebook And Twitter – Handling...
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Fear and loathing of social media…
There seems to have been a lot of negativity about social media in the last few weeks and months. It has a number of different facets and works in a number of different directions. Command central for...
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#Establishment?
Two seemingly very different stories have been dominating the left-wing UK political scene on Twitter over the last week or two. The first is the remarkable success of the #CameronMustGo hashtag, the...
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Time to change Twitter, or #RIPTwitter?
One the main topics on Twitter the last day or so has been, well, Twitter itself. When the rumour came out that Twitter was – apparently within the next week or so – going to move to using an...
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