#DigitalParenting Legal Stories via @drbattytowers

Digital Fingerprint
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Keeping track of a number of stories relating to ‘Raising Children in a Digital Age‘ in the news: Online games industry given two months to get house in order following OFT investigation The OFT has today published its final principles for online and in-app games, and given games producers a deadline of 1 April to ensure that their games do not breach consumer protection law. The OFT principles state that consumers should be told upfront about costs associated…
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Trust in data: about to be compromised?

drbexl
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This story just caught my eye, as there's that interesting balance between privacy in research and open-ness - this time with legal ramifications. Surely in exposing the data, they will be breaching other privacy laws - e.g. they would have collected the data for a specific purpose, and contract said 'data not to be released until after death'... Quite concerning. The folk tale about the academic who accidentally deleted his data is older than the…
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Crazy Legal Cases

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January 2000: Kathleen Robertson of Austin Texas was awarded $780,000.00 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running amok inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving tyke was Ms. Robertson's son. June 1998: A 19 year old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000.00 and medical expenses when his neighbour ran his hand over with…
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