I've yet to go to a UK lawyers conference or event and find someone blogging about it. I guess that will start to change because "live blogging" i.e. reporting an event as it happens is fairly common practice amongst geeks, and where they go, others seem to follow.
I wondered about this while I was at a talk entitled "Identity Theft, Biometrics and Data Security" organised by the Society for Computers and Law's Privacy and Data Protection Interest Group Meeting. Actually, it was a lot more interesting than it sounds and I'll come back to the detail of the talk in another post.
One of the recurrent themes was the fact that we all have "digital identities" whether we like it or not. One lady objected to this idea, and said that we wanted to remain "private". Of course, the simple answer it that it is already too late, and that raises loads of ethical, moral and legal questions.
On a slightly more mundane level, I wondered how this lady would have felt if I had blogged the meeting and mentioned her by name - as I could easily have done. It also raises the question of whether I should have asked her if I could name her, or just gone ahead and reported her legitimate comments made at an open meeting.
For those who want to start blogging conferences, Josh Hallett has produced an excellent guide on his hyku blog.
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