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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...

Tags on this discussion: .fin bank brand branding brands domain name EBA European Banking Authority gTLD ICANN Internet Internet Cooperation for Assigned Names Online trade mark trade marks web web site web sites Website websites

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...

Tags on this discussion: Article 29 Working Party CNIL data data protection data protection act data protection regime EC EU Europe European Commission European Union Google Internet Online online content personal data privacy privacy policy web web site web sites Website website content websites

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...

Tags on this discussion: broadband consumer customer Internet Internet service provider landline Ofcom Online slamming telecoms unauthorised web web site web sites Website websites

PhonepayPlus fines company £20,000 for promoting premium rates services to children

14 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

PhonepayPlus, the UK regulator for premium rate (or phone-paid) services, has fined a company £20,000 after two sisters ran up a mobile phone bill of more than £2,500 for texting a premium rate service....

Tags on this discussion: Facebook infringement Internet Online online content PhonepayPlus phonepayplus code of practice premium rate services PRS social network social networking unlawful web web site web sites Website website content websites

ASA rules that TripAdvisor advert focusing on trust was misleading

9 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that a TripAdvisor claim on its website was misleading. The website claimed that reviews posted on the site were from genuine travellers that were honest,...

Tags on this discussion: Advertising Standards Authority ASA brand branding brands CAP CAP code Internet misleading advert misleading advertisement misleading advertisements misleading advertising misleading adverts Online online content online reviews TripAdvisor web web reviews web site web sites Website website content websites

UK is best place in the world for online shopping

9 February 2012 | Paul Gershlick

The UK has a higher proportion of adults who shop online than any other country. OECD figures show that 60% of UK adults bought something online last year. This compares with the average of 30%. The UK...

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Student to be extradited to US for “authorising copyright infringement”

9 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

A student who ran a website called “TVShack”, which contained links to other websites that provided pirate copies of copyrighted material, should be extradited to the US on charges of “authorising...

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Unite ordered to disclose details of its users for a second time after failing to do it properly first time round – Manish Patel v Unite, High Court

8 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

During the British Airways cabin crew strike, Mr Patel had acted as a volunteer cabin crew member. Allegedly as a result of his actions, he was the subject of defamatory allegations posted on a forum on...

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Barrister struck off by Bar Standards Board owned Newzbin

7 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

Newzbin2, an illegal file-sharing and download website that BT was ordered to block access to in October 2011, has been in the news regularly in the last year or so. Now it has been revealed that the barrister...

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