Information Technology
Managing Digital Assets with Staff
I have recently come across an interesting report relating to an employer having to sue a former employee in an attempt to take back their Twitter followers. The employer Phonedog (@Phonedog) operates a news site. Phonedog issued proceedings in the United States Federal Court claiming misappropriation of trade secrets, interference with economic advantage and... Read More
Life without Internet Access
This morning the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011 (the “IFS”) came into effect. It seems like a life time ago that Napster arrived, had several million users and then was wiped out with litigation. So what is the IFS intending to do? Well it now makes it illegal (actually it always has been) to share (upload or download) copyrighted material... Read More
Giving the Privacy Commissioner Some Teeth and a Tech Upgrade
I have just read over all 210 pages of the Law Commission’s (“LC”) latest report, which is a review of the Privacy Act (“PA”). The review is timely as the PA is entering the twilight of its teenage years. It came to life well before most people had even heard of the internet and certainly well before email and even Facebook were ordinary parts of most New... Read More