Speaker Slides - D Mac Sithigh

Enlighten… Human rights and the omnipresent network Dr. Daithí Mac Síthigh Lecturer in Digital Media Law www.law.ed.ac.uk Salt in my tears h4p://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/glasgow-­‐man-­‐says-­‐edinburgh-­‐ketchup-­‐charge-­‐racist-­‐1-­‐3062264 www.law.ed.ac.uk Frank’s theme UNESCO ‘Freedom of connecKon, freedom of expression’ (2010: h4p://www.unesco.org/new/en/communicaKon-­‐and-­‐informaKon/resources/publicaKons-­‐and-­‐communicaKon-­‐materials/
publicaKons/full-­‐list/freedom-­‐of-­‐connecKon-­‐freedom-­‐of-­‐expression-­‐the-­‐changing-­‐legal-­‐and-­‐regulatory-­‐ecology-­‐shaping-­‐
the-­‐internet/ Special Rapporteur to UN Human Rights Council (May 2011): h4p://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/17session/A.HRC.17.27_en.pdf (image source unesco.org) www.law.ed.ac.uk The Economist, 1 December 2012 Map of the problemaKque www.law.ed.ac.uk Sleeping satellite ECHR cases: Autronic AG v Switzerland, app no 12726/87; Mustafa v Sweden, app no 23883/06 Images: Wikipedia (CC BY-­‐SA) www.law.ed.ac.uk Hanging on the telephone h4p://www.sandman.com/telhist.html Hush-­‐A-­‐Phone v US 238 F 2d 266 (1956); Re Carterfone 13 FCC 2d 420 (1968) www.law.ed.ac.uk Ba4ery acid Image: Wikipedia (CC BY-­‐SA) Somebody’s watching me h4p://ec.europa.eu/jusKce/data-­‐protecKon/arKcle-­‐29/documentaKon/opinion-­‐recommendaKon/files/2013/wp202_en.pdf h4p://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/pdfs/privacy/privacy_on_the_go.pdf Some of the material covered in this presentaKon appears in longer form in: •  ‘Virtual walls: the law of pseudo-­‐public spaces’ (2012) 8 InternaKonal Journal of Law in Context 394-­‐412 •  'App law within: rights and regulaKon in the smartphone age' (2013) 21 InternaKonal Journal of Law and InformaKon Technology which can be downloaded at h4p://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/daithimacsithigh www.law.ed.ac.uk Enlighten… Dr. Daithí Mac Síthigh Lecturer in Digital Media Law University of Edinburgh daithi.mac.sithigh@ed.ac.uk @macsithigh h6p://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/daithimacsithigh www.law.ed.ac.uk