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Helping lawyers understand the basics of core tech, 2024 edition (with slides)
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On Wednesday, I ran a day-long series of presentations with my friend Simon, for the Society for Computers and Law, entitled “Tech Fundamentals For Lawyers”.
on Nov 8
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Background The Secretary of State has powers to interfere with / intervene in the running of internet domain registries for “UK-related” domains.
on Oct 24
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ND 1437: the 2014 UK call tracing standard that I hadn't heard about
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The other day, I was asked to look at a request from the ICO to a UK communications provider to trace a call.
on Oct 8
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Some stats on decoded.legal's environmental impact
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decoded.legal has published an environmental policy for quite some time now.
on Sep 25
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Running a law firm on Free software (2024 edition)
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Two years ago, I wrote about running decoded.legal - an English law firm - on Free software.
on Sep 20
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The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has, for what I think is the first time ever, taken enforcement action against an organisation for cookie-related practices.
on Sep 18
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UK government proposes to increase data protection fees
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Did you know about this? I didn’t. The UK government is seeking views on proposals to amend to amend the current data protection fees payable by data controllers to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
on Sep 5
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A first look at the ICO's new (beta) tool for creating UK GDPR privacy notices
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The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has launched a beta of a new free tool to create privacy notices.
on Aug 30
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Web analytics tools using JavaScript: 'cookie consent' and the UK
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This blogpost started life when I was asked to advise on the use of a popular open source web analytics tool.
on Aug 13
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Ofcom amends GC C1 to prohibit inflation-linked price rises for new contracts from 17 January 2025
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As expected, Ofcom has issued a new statement, prohibiting inflation-linked price rises in contracts for communications services.
on Jul 23
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The EU's terrorist content regulation and what it means for UK hosting providers
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The European Parliament has adopted (deemed approved) a regulation addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online.
on Jul 18
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decoded.legal (@decodedlegal@fedi.decoded.legal)
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## [Ofcom's new guidance on open Internet / net neutrality, including zero rating and traffic management](https://decoded.legal/blog/2023/10/ofcoms-new-guidance-on-open-internet--net-neutrality-including-zero-rating-and-traffic-management/) @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk has read 280ish pages of...
on Oct 31, 2023
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A quite long post about the potential impact of an ongoing Bitcoin case, which could result in the imposition of fiduciary duties on (some?) developers of Free software.
on Oct 25, 2023
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Neil looks at the UK government's updated voluntary code of practice for App Stores.
on Oct 16, 2023
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An initial blogpost looking at the scope of the devices which fall within the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022.
on Oct 13, 2023
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ICO guidance on workplace monitoring - decoded.legal: Internet, telecoms and tech law decoded.
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A comment on the ICO's new guidance on workplace monitoring
on Oct 4, 2023