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Online data protection for children and teenagers
January 19, 2010Online safety and data protection for young people has frequently made headlines in recent months. Ed Balls was just this weekend drawn into a cyberbullying row, as the Daily Telegraph reports here. We thought readers might like to hear about a forthcoming campaign and event designed to highlight and combat some of the challenges facing young people online.
Thursday 28th January marks Data Protection Day, and City law firm Speechly Bircham LLP will be launching their online safety campaign ‘The i in online’ on this date. The campaign is being launched in conjunction with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) to enlighten children and teenagers (as well as their teachers and parents) on the issues of management of online personal data and social networking sites. Major household names such as BSkyB, Walt Disney, Turner Broadcasting and Nickelodeon have all lent their backing to the campaign.
A launch event will be held at Speechly’s New Street Square offices (off Chancery Lane) on the 28th January from 1-3pm, which will include a short presentation by both the ICO and Speechly Bircham’s ‘i in online team’ as well as an interactive workshop session to discuss the six main areas: Social networks and privacy, Cyber bullying, Personal safety online, Misuse of personal information, Personal data awareness and CCTV and monitoring.
The session will be attended by both local schools, and the Information Commissioner himself, Christopher Graham.
Interested readers can find out more here: www.speechlys.com/the_i_in_online
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From the inside of the maze, ethically outwards
February 9, 2012Curious times in the media; strange days at The Times.
Would ‘Dacre Cards‘ – the system of licensing journalists proposed by Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre – have prevented the embarrassment now palpable at the Times over the NightJack story?
Times editor James Harding’s evidence to the Leveson Inquiry seemed heartfelt and contrite, albeit that the paper’s former long-serving and much-respected lawyer, Alastair Brett, seems to have been, er, rather dropped in it. Clearly, mistakes were made with regard to NightJack by young reporter Patrick Foster who, once he had hacked into NightJack’s account and thus discovered his identity, then embarked on a quest to expose it via legitimate methods. This, as Inquiry counsel Robert Jay QC put it, was “rather like working from the inside of the maze out”.
But had Foster been licensed via a Dacre Card, would this unsavoury episode in the Times’s history have been avoided?
We suspect not. A raft of laws were in existence at precisely the time when many News of the World journalists seemed to believe that they were entitled to hack any phone they liked. Those laws forbade them from doing so, and yet made no difference. Aside from the obvious objection to them – that they will squeeze out freelancers and citizen journalists – Dacre Cards would simply amount to something to circumvent.
What is really required is an ethical shake-up, from top to bottom. Society generally – not just journalists – needs a sense that some things are just plain wrong.
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Supreme Court on Twitter
February 6, 2012Something remarkable happened today. Yes, the Supreme Court launched its Twitter feed. It even has a Twitter policy, one of caveats, disclaimers and little by way of illumination but regardless: who would have thought that the successor body to the House of Lords would stoop to engage with the world of tweets, hashtags and retweets?
We look forward to the day when court business will be conducted via Twitter. Meantime, check out this link for an excellent blog on the Supreme Court.
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Not so right said Fred
February 2, 2012
So Farewell, then, Sir Fred Goodwin.
Now you are just Fred.
Not Right Said Fred, but plain Fred.
The Forfeiture Committee did for you.
No one had heard of it before,
But Dave said it had to act, and it did.
Trouble is that no one knows what to think.
Is it ‘Alas, poor Fred‘,
Or ‘Hurray! Sir Fred is dead!’?
We don’t know.
Do you?
By A. Mob, aged 1,378 and a half.
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