Changes to Slaw Email Subscriptions
If you are subscribed to Slaw posts by email, there is an important upcoming change that you’ll want to know about. As of the end of June, Feedburner (our current provider of email alerts) is...
View ArticleDigital Economy Partnership Agreement
Recently Singapore, New Zealand and Chile signed an agreement on how they will run their trading relationships in the electronic age: the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA). It spells out how...
View ArticleDoes a Computer Generated Letter Need a Signature?
This morning I had by email a long-wished-for letter (laid out like a typical business letter, with letterhead and date and address etc.) from the company financing my car, telling me my loan was now...
View ArticleDigital Assets Revisited
A recent news story, on CBC and elsewhere, told of a woman whose son went missing for two years. When she found his body (in a morgue), she did not know why he died. She has been trying to get...
View ArticlePrescribing Technology by Law
Lately we discussed on this blog U.S. legislation appearing to validate contracts or signatures done by blockchain, by saying that ‘electronic record’ and ‘electronic signature’ under the states’...
View ArticleA Slaw Tips Milestone! Plus, a Call for New Tipsters
Today, Slaw Tips hit a remarkable milestone: one thousand tips! Launched in 2011, the site’s very first tips dealt with turning off pop-up email notifications, finding moved web pages and preventing...
View ArticleNo Bitcoin Fund in Ontario, Says OSC
Last month the Ontario Securities Commission refused to approve a prospectus for a fund that proposed to invest in bitcoin. The investment did not have enough liquidity, i.e. investors could not be...
View ArticleStill More on Electronic Wills
Here are some further thoughts on how Canada might authorize electronic wills. Perhaps the Uniform Law Conference of Canada could use them in the mix of policy proposals when and if it takes up the...
View ArticleDo We Need Right-to-Repair Legislation?
The ABA’s technology journal has an article advocating legislation to give consumers (or everybody) a right to repair their devices. What this does is prohibit manufacturers from making their devices...
View ArticleIs the Right to Be Forgotten Global?
The Court of Justice of the European Union is hearing arguments on whether the right to be forgotten under EU law (notably based on the Spanish case from 2014 that started all this discussion) should...
View ArticleDevices Gone Wild III: Smart Home Devices Used for Harassment
The American Bar Journal reports that some people are harassing their spouses by remote manipulation of smart home devices, like thermostats, TVs and the like – turning the heat way up, or off, turning...
View ArticleWould It Be Good to Get Rid of Cash?
The Guardian has an article about the number of businesses in the U.K. that are refusing to accept cash in payment, notably for food and drink, and services. The article and the comments to it point...
View ArticleShould Mandatory CLE Require Technology in Particular?
Some states in the US, notably now including North Carolina and Florida, require that part of one’s mandatory continuing legal education include education on techology. Florida’s rule requires three...
View ArticleDo You Need to Know You Are Speaking With a Robot?
You will probably have heard that Google has developed a system by which a machine can make phone calls to humans, notably to make reservations for hotels and restaurants (and what more human an...
View ArticleWhen Does a Technical Standard Become a Legal Standard of Care?
The Guardian reports us that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is close to adopting a new authentication standard that can replace passwords. This would be some kind of “who you are” (biometric) or...
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Simon Fodden (1944 – 2018)
It is with a heavy heart that I share the news that our beloved Slaw founder, Simon Fodden, passed away on February 10th, 2018. Simon had been fighting cancer for the past four years, and died...
View ArticleVideos With Fake Faces – What Legal Remedy?
Professor Eric Goldman of UC Santa Clara writes about new technology that allows adept editors to put someone’s face on a video of someone else. That can produce comic results, but it can also be a...
View ArticleStudent Access to the Exams They Have Written
The Court of Justice of the EU has held that the “examination script” i.e. the answers to examination questions, constitutes the personal information of the student, and therefore it must be made...
View ArticleAre Social Media Posts by Politicians Official Documents?
The US Department of Justice has declared that President Trump’s tweets are official statements of the President – at least in one case. In another, mentioned in the same ABA story, it is saying that...
View Article“Internet Separation”– the Wave of the (Secure) Future?
To reduce the risk of hackers coming into government database through the Internet, the Government of Singapore has required all public service computers to be cut off from the Internet. Public...
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