Technology & AI
AI, data, privacy and law in the digital domain.
Digital Borders: When Your Server Room Becomes a Battlefield
For centuries, sovereignty was straightforward. Your territory ended where mine began. Borders were lines on maps, defended by walls, armies, and awkward border control conversations about whether that salami counts as a restricted item.…
When International Law Meets Deepfakes: The Coming Crisis of Evidence
There was a time when video evidence carried inherent authority. A photograph could be contested, but a moving image, especially one showing events in real time, held a credibility that few other forms of proof could rival. That era is…
The Robot Rules: Why the EU's AI Act Is Both Genius and Slightly Terrifying
Right, let's talk about the elephant in the room, or rather, the algorithm in the server. Artificial intelligence has gone from sci-fi fantasy to running half our lives in about the time it takes to say "I, for one, welcome our new robot…
When Safety Meets Scale: Australia's Social Media Age Ban and the Legal Integrity Questions Nobody's Really Asking
Picture this: it's 10 December 2025, and more than a million Australian teenagers are waking up to find their social media accounts deleted. Welcome to Australia's world-first experiment in regulating Big Tech.
Due Process in the Digital Domain: The Legal Risks of Editorial Power
In October 2025, a controversy erupted within Wikipedia and it’s neutrality. The article had opened with an unqualified assertion that Israel “is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.” This phrasing, which…
The Right to Be Forgotten- How Law Balances Memory and Privacy Online
The internet has changed what it means to have a past. Everything we’ve ever posted, said, or been written about can resurface years later with a single search. The result these days is that old mistakes, outdated news, or irrelevant…
"Confidential Information" The Boundaries of Secrecy in the Digital Age
“Confidential information” once meant papers locked in a drawer. Now it means data zipping across servers, screenshots, and cloud drives. As courts and companies struggle to define what confidentiality means in an age of instant sharing,…
