… And they all fall down!
Remember the nursery rhyme, Ring a ring o’ roses, a pocket full of posies, atishoo, atishoo and they all fall down……
Like a pack of cards, the fall out from the phone hacking scandal continues...
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RSSDismissal for offensive email sent from home computer was fair – Gosden v Lifeline, Employment Tribunal
Lifeline employed Gosden and supplied him to HM Prison Service (HMPS). Outside of working hours and from his home computer, Gosden sent a sexually and racially offensive email to the home computer of a...
CAP Code changed to allow data about third parties to be validly collected from children
The CAP Code has been changed with immediate effect, so that organisations can collect data from children about third parties. Previously, the CAP Code had had a total ban on the practice. Now, it is permissible...
Facts get lost in the translation as untrue email in political spat leads to £30,000 damages – Cambridge v Makin, High Court
Two interpreters were involved in a spat that has led to a big payout in damages after one of the emails sent contained untrue allegations about the other. Cambridge was an interpreter on the board of...
UK tops the table for spam
The UK ranks above other Western European countries for the circulation of spam (junk email), according to a survey produced by Trend Micro, an Internet security business. Nearly 10% of spam emails from...
BIS consults on implementation of new E-Privacy Directive
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is consulting on plans to implement a new E-Privacy Directive. The European Union law was passed in 2009 and needs to be implemented into domestic law...
Sophisticated fake sites set up in seconds
It takes just seconds to set up sophisticated fake web sites. Those are the claims made by First Cyber Security, the Internet security business. The problem is growing. The number of counterfeit goods...
CAP Code to apply to material on own websites
The CAP Code is being extended to apply to material on organisations’ own websites. The CAP Code is a code of practice governing the content of adverts and marketing communications. It is administered...
Anti-spam company ordered to pay US$27,000 in damages for wrongly blacklisting a company
Spamhaus – an anti-spam company – has been ordered by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to pay E360 US$27,000 in damages for wrongly putting E360 on a spam blacklist. The...
British Airways in the news again for legal spat involving crew – this time over email involving questions over crew member’s honesty in taking whisky – Hughes v Risbridger, High Court
R was employed by British Airways in relation to security matters. H was a senior member of BA’s cabin crew. H had been arrested on suspicion of theft over 12 miniature bottles of whisky that he had...
