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Happy holidays 2025

Published on 2025-12-23 08:40:38 by Neil Brown
(Art by the wonderful Jennie Gyllblad.)

Announcing decoded.legal, gopher-edition

Published on 2025-10-11 08:44:42 by Neil Brown
Always keen to stay at the forefront of modern technology, you can now access much of the information on the decoded.legal website through the gopher protocol.

UK data protection fees to increase by 30%

Published on 2025-01-20 14:35:47 by Neil Brown
Back in September 2024, I blogged about the consultation on the UK government's proposal to increase data protection fees.

Is DocuSign using your documents to train its AI?

Published on 2024-02-29 08:43:32 by Neil Brown
According to DocuSign's website, DocuSign - a company most commonly used for helping people sign contracts digitally - is or may be (its information is not whol...

An introduction to 'ethical licensing'

Published on 2024-02-10 10:51:43 by Neil Brown
Technology, and programming, has always been political. I've very little time for discussions which try to separate "tech" and "politics".

Being an Internet lawyer

Published on 2024-02-06 20:15:55 by Neil Brown
A friend with a child at a local primary school asked if I would join their careers afternoon, to talk about being an Internet lawyer.

Dealing with 'AI'-generated subject access requests

Published on 2024-01-11 09:28:09 by Neil Brown
Over the past few months, I've seen an increase in the number of subject access requests received by data controllers, which appear to have been generated by, o...

Happy Christmas!

Published on 2023-12-15 09:04:16 by Neil Brown
Subtext: we are now on holiday until the new year.

Online Privacy: slides from a recent lecture

Published on 2023-11-16 13:56:13 by Neil Brown
I was lucky enough to be invited to give a talk about "Online Privacy", from an English law point of view, to a mix of undergraduate and postgraduate students r...

Going darker...

Published on 2023-09-23 10:00:00 by Neil Brown
If you're looking at this blogpost, or our website, or one of our presentations ([^presentations]), thinking "why is it darker?", here's the explanation.

But lawyers know nothing about tech...

Published on 2023-06-28 10:00:00 by Neil Brown
Pretty much every day, I read something to the effect of "lawyers are clueless when it comes to tech lol".

Tech law predictions for 2073

Published on 2023-05-10 10:00:00 by Neil Brown
The wonderful Society for Computers and Law is 50 this year, and it is producing a book of predictions of what tech law will look like in 50 years' time.

Want a Christmas card?

Published on 2022-11-24 09:00:00 by Neil Brown
Each year, we produce a geeky joke-y tech-y/legal-y Christmas card.

Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy new year

Published on 2021-12-17 09:00:00 by Neil Brown
![Mock-up of a phone, with a photo of father Christmas at the top with a red line through it, like a blocked profile photo. Text reads "Your account has been su...

Running a law firm on Linux

Published on 2021-11-12 09:00:00 by Neil Brown
![Photo of a light wood desk, with a keyboard and mouse in the foreground, and a computer and two monitors showing the Debian logo, with a circular LED light ab...

ICO: data sharing code of practice

Published on 2020-12-29 09:00:00 by Neil Brown
The ICO has released its Code of Practice on Data Sharing, under the GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year

Published on 2020-12-18 09:00:00 by Neil Brown
It's that time of year when most law firms will run some kind of "Merry Christmas — here's a year in review" blogpost, which is basically a "hey, look at ever...

Aint no party like a virtual Christmas party

Published on 2020-11-15 09:00:00 by Neil Brown
Over the weekend, some enterprising spammer bothered my inbox with a message to say that they were offering "virtual Christmas parties", and that perhaps decode...

Goodwill hunting

Published on 2020-10-16 10:00:00 by Neil Brown
The Court of Appeal has published its decision on the meaning of "goodwill" in a contract.

(Cyber)Flash A-Ah!

Published on 2020-09-11 10:00:00 by Neil Brown
CW/TW: unsolicited sexual images

SafetyTech: what it is, and key legal issues

Published on 2020-09-02 10:00:00 by Neil Brown
I've seen the term "SafetyTech" crop up quite a bit lately, mostly due to a recent report for the UK government (PDF) (and also an HTML version for those who pr...

Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things

Published on 2020-06-04 10:00:00 by Neil Brown
Yes, I know that, with everything going on in the world, this is hardly a top priority right now. But a report on [The Register][1] caught my eye this week, and...

gov.uk guidance on contracts: don't be a dick

Published on 2020-05-14 10:00:00 by Neil Brown
The UK government has published some guidance, "Guidance on responsible contractual behaviour in the performance and enforcement of contracts impacted by the Co...

Selling online to consumers: the right to cancel

Published on 2020-02-09 09:00:00 by Neil Brown
If you are a business selling goods, services, or digital content (music, films, software, ebooks and information, and so on) online to consumers in the UK, you...

GDPR: it's not too late

Published on 2020-01-12 09:00:00 by Neil Brown
Some tips of implementing data protection requirements effectively