The article ‘Social media and legal code’ (PDF. 371KB), published recently in NZ Lawyer, provides a checklist of governance, legal, and quasi-legal issues for those involved in the planning, design, operation, and maintenance of social media sites. Hope it’s of some use.
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As I have noted elsewhere, UK-based Out-law has recently reported, in one of its excellent legal podcasts, on recent cases in France in which the courts have held that website operators who republished RSS feed content onto their sites were legally responsible themselves as publishers of what transpired to be posts that were invasive of […]
The internet is a deep and rich repository of information. That’s the thought that surfaced when I came across the work of Professor Beth Simone Noveck today.
Among other things, Professor Noveck is a Professor of Law at New York Law School, with particular expertise in the impact of technology on legal and political institutions. She […]
One of the issues raised during the development of this blog was whether to have Staff Contribution Guidelines. Without the need for any protracted discussion, we decided that having such Guidelines in place prior to launch was desirable. Accordingly, draft Guidelines were prepared by the SSC legal team with reference to:
the Standards of Integrity and […]
Greetings to those who have stumbled across In Development. The purpose of this post is simple: to introduce myself and mention briefly what I’ll be blogging about.
I’m Richard Best and one of 5 lawyers working at the State Services Commission (SSC). My specific title is Legal Advisor to the All-of-government Authentication Programme. While the bulk […]
