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The Pirate Bay going the same way as Newzbin – Dramatico Entertainment Ltd and others v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd and others, High Court

12 March 2012 | Simon Weinberg

Following the recent ruling in favour the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI) that Internet service providers (ISPs) must block access to Newzbin2, a website that offers users a search engine and download...

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GSMA guidelines accepted by mobile phone companies

7 March 2012 | Simon Weinberg

The GSMA, which represents mobile phone operators, has published privacy guidelines for “Mobile Application Development”. It is hoped that the guidelines will give “app” users better transparency,...

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More criticism of Google’s privacy changes

7 March 2012 | Simon Weinberg

On 1 March 2012, Google consolidated all of its privacy policies into one, so that personal data collected through one Google service can be shared with other Google services such as YouTube, Gmail and...

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Information Commissioner’s Office gives mixed reaction to proposed new EU data protection laws

5 March 2012 | Paul Gershlick

The Information Commissioner’s Office – the UK’s data protection regulator – has given a mixed reaction to the proposed new European Union’s data protection laws. Overall, the ICO welcomes a...

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European Banking Authority asks for ban on “.bank” and “.fin” domain names

5 March 2012 | Simon Weinberg

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has urged the Internet Cooperation for Assigned Names (ICANN) to withdraw the availability of “.bank” and “.fin” general top level domain names (gTLDs). ICANN...

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Matthew Arnold & Baldwin helps launch ground-breaking Raspberry Pi computer

1 March 2012 | Ted Mercer

The TMT team at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP have recently drafted a commercialisation and distribution (OEM) contract for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized, low-cost...

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Google told to postpone privacy policy update by Article 29 Working Party

22 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

Google recently announced its plans to introduce one privacy policy to cover all of its uses of personal data across all the services it offers worldwide; currently Google has separate privacy policies...

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The high street continues to suffer, but UK retailers surf the online wave

21 February 2012 | Tim Constable

The decline of the UK high street has been a widely talked about subject: the recession, lack of investment, high business rates, lack of parking, a decline in retail profits, shops closing and businesses...

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App-makers apologise for address book data breach

16 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

Path and Hipster, the makers of “apps” for the Apple iPhone, have apologised after they uploaded the address book information of the app-users without explicit consent. The data was uploaded and copied...

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Ofcom targets ‘slamming’ offenders and to make switching easier

16 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

Ofcom, the UK’s telecoms regulator, has proposed a set of measures to allow broadband and landline customers to switch providers more easily and to better protect them from being switched to another...

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