Ryanair Achieve a Take-Off
Ryanair have succeeded in shutting down a website dedicated to hating the budget airline. The domain name ‘ihateryanair.co.uk’ was acquired by Ryanair through Nominet’s domain name dispute resolution...
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RSSTwitter – for Celebs, Advertising and the Police…
Greater Manchester Police gave a unique insight into 999 calls by ‘tweeting’ every incident reported to them over a 24-hour period, starting at 5am on 14 October 2010. The aim of the experiment was...
European Commission proposes Directive on attacks against information systems
The European Commission has published a proposal for a new Directive on attacks against information systems. It supersedes and supplements a Decision by the European Union Council from 2005. That Decision...
European Commission takes UK to court over failure to protect privacy and data
The European Commission has announced that it is taking the UK to the European Court of Justice for failure to properly implement European Union rules protecting protection of data and privacy. The issue...
European Parliament calls for European Commission to look into creating EU-wide harmonised copyright laws
The European Parliament has passed a resolution that calls for the European Commission to consider creating a single unified copyright law across the European Union. It says that the current law is not...
Could law firm sending out mass letters for copyright infringement be first to incur new £500,000 fines for serious data protection breaches?…
ACS:Law may be the first business to incur the recently introduced expanded fines of up to £500,000. The controversial law firm has made its name by sending out thousands of letters to alleged peer-to-peer...
Spanish court confirms YouTube not liable for copyright infringement in uploaded material
A Spanish court has confirmed that YouTube is not liable for the infringement of copyright in videos uploaded by users. The user generated content site service provider only becomes liable if it fails...
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...
‘Rate parity’ practice for online hotel sales under investigation for competition law issues
The Office of Fair Trading is investigating whether the practice whereby hotel chains demand that online resellers of their room bookings keep to minimum prices breaches competition law. The practice –...
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...
