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Transfering customer data abroad
Intra-group transfer of data outside of the EEA Background Boombust Limited intends to transfer details of all its existing customers to an off shore company within the same group of…
Monitoring Email in the light of the Ford Decision
The Dangers of E-mail and Internet Use in the Workplace Because employers can be held legally liable for the content of e-mails sent from their premises and for the content…
Mobile Marketing
Simon Halberstam of specialist e-commerce solicitors Sprecher Grier Halberstam says that companies considering email marketing campaigns need to consider some basic legal issues before spending money on such campaigns. "Ask…
Call Centres and the 1998 Data Protection Act
Call Centres and the Data Protection Act 1998: some legal points to note: * Customers should be advised if their details are to be stored, by whom and for what…
Online Casino – A new era?
Following the report published by the Gambling Review Board ("the Budd Report") last summer, the Government has produced proposals which could potentially make the UK one of the best and…
The Castle of Voruta
The castle of Voruta was one of the most important castles during the reign of the first and the only crowned King of Lithuania Mindaugas (1238–1263). Here Mindaugas defended himself…
Catfish Spelunking in Mexico
by Shane Linder While up in Mexico last week (Dec 2001) I managed to make a stop at a cenote just outside of Chichen Itza in Yucatan State. A cenote…
Geology Of Ward Valley
By Howard Wilshire and Jane Nielson Ward Valley has a long geologic history, but many of the valleys geological facets relevant to nuclear waste dump siting are of quite recent…
Swim with the dolphins at Malta
I can’t stop laughing as the dolphin sweeps me through the water while I cling tightly to his hard dorsal fin. Spray smacks me in the face as we whoosh…
The Prickly Underbelly of Industrial Ecology
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President The term "industrial ecology" has long been recognized as an evocative analogy, suggesting the benefits of designing industrial systems to more closely…
The Urban Game
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President Viewing the World Summit in Johannesburg from a safe distance, I could not help but think of Shakespeare: "full of sound and…
Climate Change and Technological Evolution
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President As noted last month, communication between the technological and environmental discourses is still fairly minimal. This is unfortunate for a number of…
Green Technology: From Oxymoron to Null Set
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President Last month's column raised the question of how the Internet and its postmodernist pastiche of time and place is liable to change…
Global Climate Change Adaptation
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President (Reprinted with permission from the Green Business Letter) The political state of global climate change is tumultuous and highly polarized, and lends…
Complex Systems and Human Freedom
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President (Reprinted with permission from the Green Business Letter) Perhaps the last great project of the traditional Enlightenment was the 20th century effort…
Environmentalism: Private or Public Morality?
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President (Reprinted with permission from the Green Business Letter) Democratic systems of governance, especially those that guarantee true freedom of speech and religion,…
The Commoditization of Nature
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President (Reprinted with permission from the Green Business Letter) One of the most famous lines of The Communist Manifesto is Marx and Engle's…
Earth Systems Engineering
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President (Reprinted with permission from the Green Business Letter) To start with the big picture, it is important to recognize the systemic meaning…
Marx, Environment and Complexity
by Dr. Braden Allenby, AT&T EH&S Vice President (Reprinted with permission from the Green Business Letter) Some people may wonder why this column, written by an industry person, refers so…