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Mixed messages

May 21, 2010 – 7:09 pm

There are a lot of mixed messages in our society (for example, those surrounding young girls growing up these days). Something that has struck me forcefully in recent days, however, is that the press have been sending out very mixed messages about gay and lesbian people in our society. The first story to break was [...]

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Cyberbullying and the law

March 25, 2010 – 11:47 am

[Cross posted at Fortnightly Review, the new online journal founded by IPRIA and the CMCL at the University of Melbourne. Please check out Fortnightly Review - it's well worth a look.] 1. CYBER-BULLYING Cyber-bullying in Australia – Facebook It’s not only Lara Bingle and other celebrities who have to worry about cyber-bullying, “sexting” and how [...]

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Privacy and WAGS

March 2, 2010 – 7:49 pm

I have to say that I never really understood where the acronym WAG came from – I had to look it up on Wikipedia, and I found that it originated as a descriptor of the Wives And Girlfriends of the 2006 English World Cup soccer club. Anyway, I’ve noted that our press has started referring [...]

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Sharing is not always a good thing

February 19, 2010 – 2:16 pm

[Warning, if you are eating, do not continue reading this post.] I just had occasion to shiver all over with horror. You know, when something is so awful that you feel like your skin is crawling off your back? What could be so awful…? The cause of my horror was the article where Tony Abbott [...]

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Social networking technology and employers

August 18, 2009 – 3:43 pm

Deckard: Replicants are like any other machine. They’re either a benefit or a hazard. If they’re a benefit, it’s not my problem. Bladerunner, 1982 Very much the same thing could be said about social networking technology as about replicants. The technology can have both positive and negative ramifications. A few times over the last week, [...]

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Anonymous no more…

June 18, 2009 – 9:02 pm

I can’t believe there is a case called The Author of A Blog v Times Newspapers Limited [2009] EWHC 1358 (QB). But there is. “The Author of A Blog” cited as the claimant was the pseudonymous author of a blog known as “Night Jack”. He was a police officer whose blog provided an inside view [...]

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Through a glass, darkly

April 22, 2009 – 9:48 am

An online persona is an interesting thing – a reflection of the self in a very public forum. One of my old bosses used to say, “Never write anything in a file of which you’d be ashamed if it needed to be produced before the Court.” I tend to employ the same principle with regard [...]

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