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By Ray Corrigan (The Open University)

04 October 2011

Ray Corrigan considers the trade-offs between privacy and security that we face when travelling by air  Read more : To see or not to see, that is the question

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Blocking your browsers or checking your knickers: On technology, privacy and anonymityCreative Commons Image Jurvetson under CC-BY licence

By Ray Corrigan (The Open University)

05 February 2010

Ray Corrigan asks if we're not a little too quick to condemn China's attitude to privacy when our own use of technology might go a...  Read more : Blocking your browsers or checking your knickers: On technology, privacy and anonymity

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DRM explained Featuring: video,audio, Production team

By Ray Corrigan (The Open University), John Perry Barlow (Guest)

05 February 2010

The EFF's John Perry Barlow and Ray Corrigan of The Open University decry attempts to provide digital locks on content.  Read more : DRM explained

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The plight of the Navigator: How Microsoft fought the browser wars in courtCreative Commons Image StudioEgo under CC-BY-NC-SA licence

By Ray Corrigan (The Open University)

01 February 2010

Did the US Department of Justice clip Microsoft's wings - or had the software giant already won its victory?  Read more : The plight of the Navigator: How Microsoft fought the browser wars in court

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By Ray Corrigan (The Open University)

28 July 2009

Gait recognition is still a long way off identifying individual criminals, as Ray Corrigan explains  Read more : Gait recognition

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Nationality online Featuring: video,audio, Production team

By Ray Corrigan (The Open University), Evgeny Morozov (Guest)

24 May 2012

Evgeny Morozov of Foreign Policy and The Open University's Ray Corrigan praise the chances and weigh the challenges offered as nationality moves online.  Read more : Nationality online

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Corrigan, Ray (2011). Information policy making: developing the rules of the road for the information society (or the anatomy of a digital economy act). In: Ramage, Magnus and Chapman, David eds. Perspectives on Information. Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science. Abingdon, U.K. and New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, pp. 134–153.

Rogers, Mark; Corrigan, Ray and Tomalin, Joshua (2010). The economic impact of consumer copyright exceptions: A literature review. Consumer Focus, London, UK.

Corrigan, Ray (2009). Ecology, intellectual property and a five point plan for a sustainable public domain? In: 4th GikII International Workshop on Law, Technology and Culture, 18-19 Sept 2009, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam.

Corrigan, Ray (2008). Back to the future: digital decision making. Information & Communications Technology Law, 17(3), pp. 199–220.

Corrigan, Ray (2007). Is there such a thing as sustainable infodiversity? In: Researching open content in education, 30-31 October 2007, Milton Keynes, UK.

Corrigan, Ray (2007). Colmcille and the Battle of the Book: Technology, Law and Access to Knowledge in 6th Century Ireland. In: GikII 2 Workshop on the intersections between law, technology and popular culture at University College London, September 19th, 2007, 19 September 2007, London, UK.

Corrigan, Ray (2007). Digital Decision Making: Back to the Future. Springer-Verlag London Ltd.

Corrigan, Ray (2006). The Second Law and Rivalrous Digital Information (Or Maxwell's Demon in an Information Age). In: GikII Workshop preceding VI Computer Law World Conference, 4-5 September 2006, Edinburgh University.

Corrigan, Ray and Rogers, Mark (2005). The economics of copyright. World Economics, 6(3), pp. 153–174.

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Blocking your browsers or checking your knickers: On technology, privacy and anonymity

Comment posted by zz900673

16 Mar 2012

After reading all I am not sure if we are in secure in internet world. Nobody can be %100 sure... (commercial website removed by OpenLearn Moderator 19.03.12) Read more : Blocking your browsers or checking your knickers: On technology, privacy and anonymity

Gait recognition

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11 Feb 2012

You are a little right. If the resonance of the DNA can be cought by REPLICATION method A=T and T=A some thing like that can be help ful to get recognized by sound (external website removed by... Read more : Gait recognition

To see or not to see, that is the question

Comment posted by js5788

20 Jan 2012

Ray is thought provoking as ever, with the added bonus of a useful risk assessment checklist. Read more : To see or not to see, that is the question

Gait recognition

Comment posted by zz876072

15 Jan 2012

I think, voice or audio verification is much harder than GENE verification or identification, because gene verification has a exact match pattern where audio is frequency - Read more : Gait recognition

The plight of the Navigator: How Microsoft fought the browser wars in court

Comment posted by Unknown

03 Feb 2010

You would have thought that enforced competition would have made Netscape a more attractive proposition - so how come did AOL effectively give it away? What did Netscape have - other than a browser... Read more : The plight of the Navigator: How Microsoft fought the browser wars in court

The plight of the Navigator: How Microsoft fought the browser wars in court

Comment posted by magnusramage

02 Feb 2010

Great posting, though what came next is also interesting. In 1998, the same year as Netscape was bought by AOL, they made the browser code open-source. The Mozilla project which took up the code... Read more : The plight of the Navigator: How Microsoft fought the browser wars in court

The plight of the Navigator: How Microsoft fought the browser wars in court

Comment posted by magnusramage

02 Feb 2010

magnusramage has started a thread discussing [URL="http://www.open2.net/blogs/scitechnature/index.php/2010/02/01/the-blight-of-the-navigator-how-microsof?blog=7"]The plight of the Navigator: How... Read more : The plight of the Navigator: How Microsoft fought the browser wars in court

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Ray Corrigan is senior lecturer in technology at The Open University. Deeply involved with The Open University's deployment of elearning, Ray is an expert in computer mediated communication in education. His research interests include interacting developments in law and technology and their wider effects on society.
Ray also blogs at b2fxxx

 

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