November 2012 – December 2015

I contributed to a legal/tech column on MarkLives and wrote about a number of tech- and policy-related legal themes:

1. Tech Law: Content piracy and a panicked industry
2. Tech Law: Changing privacy norms
3. Tech Law: Media insight — What changes to Facebook’s governance structure mean for users
4. Tech Law: Media myths about the new Instagram Terms of Use
5. Tech Law: Social media insight — Randi Zuckerberg and contextual privacy
6. Tech Law: Is WHATSAPP violating your privacy rights?
7. Tech Law: SA law advances dealing with social Web issues in Facebook defamation ruling
8. Tech Law: Who owns your social media account when you resign?
9. Tech Law: Your Oscar Pistorius conjecture could get you sued
10. Tech Law: Processing, personal information and direct marketing under POPI
11. Tech Law: NSA spying negates attorney-client privilege
12. Tech Law: Is your marketing strategy diabetic?
13. Tech Law: ANN7 sings the Streisand Effect blues
14. Tech Law: Yes, you can be sued for sharing a defamatory Facebook post or tweet
15. Tech Law: How POPI will change your direct marketing activities
16. Tech Law: Digital strategists’ glaring blindspot
17. Tech Law: How you sell for Facebook and Google
18. Tech Law: What the tobacco ad ban can teach the liquor industry
19. Tech Law: Free is the death of the open web
20. Tech Law: Privacy — what do you expect?
21. Tech Law: Publicity vs privacy — if you’re a marketer, you won’t like this column
22. Tech Law: Digital marketing should focus on trust, not sales
23. Tech Law: The FPB’s absurd plans to regulate the internet
24. Tech Law: Marketers should reconsider targeted online ads
25. Tech Law: How much do you Like your colleagues?
26. Tech Law: Has Facebook found the balance between targeted ads and privacy?
27. Tech Law: The murky world of audience-data based marketing
28. Tech Law: It’s not April Fools’ Day — it’s the FPB
29. Motive: How the blockchain could revolutionise your next contract
30. Motive: Advertisers use the Force — five top Star Wars ads – reprinted with permission from imonomy