Showing posts with label legal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legal. Show all posts
Friday, March 28, 2014

What should agencies do when online services change their terms of use?

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Governments around the world now rely on social media services to reach and engage citizens, disseminate information, to monitor what peopl...
Friday, September 21, 2012

How do you know that's really a government social media account?

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On the internet, as they say, no-one knows if you're a dog - or a government agency. This can become a problem when Facebook pages, ...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

How Facebook has become a risk for public servants, and what you can do about it

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If you are one of the majority of public servants with a Facebook account, then it may be time to reconsider how you use the service. As ...
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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Are Australia's web developers failing to deliver accessible websites?

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In a recent story in ITNews, Accessibility checker surfaces errors , John Hibbert claimed that a new Mental Health website, www.mindhealthc...
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Friday, May 04, 2012

Is it theft if you personalise & retain an official social media account when you leave an organisation?

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One of the legal and ethical dilemmas organisations are beginning to struggle with is the ownership of social media accounts. When a staf...
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Friday, February 17, 2012

Victorian government launches inquiry into the use of social media in the house to reflect on the office of Speaker, by parliamentarians and public

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Reading the eGovernment Resource Centre's newsletter this morning, the Victorian government has launched an inquiry into the use of soc...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Many national laws are increasingly irrelevant - how will governments adapt?

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Facebook decides whether photos of nursing mothers are allowed to be displayed in its site (including in Australia and other nations where...
Friday, February 03, 2012

How should agencies moderate their online channels?

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While government agencies often have limited options in the approaches they choose to use for moderating third-party social media channels,...
Monday, January 23, 2012

New Inside Story policy: provide your full name for publication or your comment won't be published

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I have had a great deal of respect for the  Australian Policy Online (APO), produced by the Australian National University and University ...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Cannot defame with a hyperlink - Canadian Supreme Court ruling

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In the spirit of actually being in Canada, I learnt last Thursday that in a groundbreaking case the Canadian Supreme Court has supported two...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

The role of social media during the Arab Spring

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John Sheridan posted a link on Twitter to a very interesting analysis of the impact of social media on the revolutions across the Arab worl...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Turning open government petitions into policies in Latvia, using online banking to authenticate citizens

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It can be difficult to get a perspective on the Government 2.0 activities in non-English speaking countries. However thanks to Francis Irv...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

21st Century society vs 19th Century laws and policing

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Laws have always struggled to keep up with society, however rarely in such a vivid and public way as in Wednesday's arrest of Sydney Mor...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Is it practical for government agencies to block web-based mail?

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The Australian National Audit Office has just released a report ' The Protection and Security of Electronic Information Held by Australi...
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Friday, March 18, 2011

The coming open data battle - government versus commercial interests

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I'm a big fan of opening up as much public sector information as possible in easily discoverable and reusable ways (taking into account ...
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