‘FOCUS: The recent rebuke handed to a drugs manufacturer by a US regulator over the endorsement of its product by celebrity Kim Kardashian highlights differences in the way the direct marketing of prescription medicines is regulated in the US and UK.’
OUT-LAW.com, 13th August 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Requests for Twitter users’ personal information more than doubled in the UK in 2015, according to the company’s latest transparency report.’
BBC News, 13th August 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Businesses selling or licensing digital content will not have to honour most “rights and remedies” that consumers will have under new UK consumer protection laws where those consumers exchange access to their personal data rather than money in return for that content, a UK regulator has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 7th August 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A year after a change to UK domain names a skirmish in (web)space shows how effective Nominet’s Dispute Resolution Service can be in protecting a trade mark owner’s rights.’
Full story
Technology Law Update, 6th August 2015
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
‘A disabled man who tried to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex and brought a morning-after pill with him to stop her getting pregnant has been jailed for three and a half years.’
The Guardian, 6th August 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Web giants Google, Facebook and Twitter have joined forces with a British charity in a bid to remove millions of indecent child images from the net.’
BBC News, 10th August 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The broadcasting watchdog Ofcom is investigating Sky over concerns that customers’ attempts to cancel their contracts are being ignored.’
The Guardian, 6th August 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Government needs to introduce a second civil law to tackle revenge porn – because the current criminal law does not go far enough to help victims – according to a specialist in the field.’
Daily Telegraph, 4th August 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The right to be forgotten is beginning to generate some litigation, albeit not yet with any blaze of glory. Following on from the attempt to judicially review the ICO for refusing to try and enforce an individual’s complaint that his data rights were being breached (see here), earlier this week a claimant failed to get his right to be forgotten claim to fly before the Nottingham County Court.’
Panopticon, 31st July 2015
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
‘Facebook is one of the main battlegrounds between privacy and other social goods such as safety and security.’
Full story
Panopticon, 31st July 2015
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
‘A man involved in a £51m VAT scam has lost a legal bid to have news stories about him removed from Google under the so-called “right to be forgotten”.’
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BBC News, 30th July 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Imagine an estate where there is no dispute amongst the beneficiaries, whether about the validity of the deceased’s will or its terms. Imagine that there is no inheritance tax to pay by reason of the death of the deceased. The bulk of the estate is held in a bank account that is accessible online and the executor named in the will is aware of the username and password applicable to this online account. He wishes to use them to transfer the money in the account to an account in his name and then to administer it precisely according to law.’
New Square Chambers, 29th June 2015
Source: www.newsquarechambers.co.uk
‘Facebook is no stranger to complaints about the content of posts. Usually, one user complains to Facebook about what other users’ posts say about him. By making the offending posts available, Facebook is processing the complainant’s personal data, and must do so in compliance with data protection law.’
Full story
Panopticon, 22nd Juyl 2015
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
‘A paedophile was caught after he wrote to Home Secretary Theresa May asking for sex with children to be legalised.’
The Independent, 20th July 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A terrorism sympathiser who translated extremist videos and uploaded them to YouTube has been jailed for 33 months. Muhammad Suleman, 25, from Crumpsall, near Manchester, pleaded guilty to distributing or circulating a video entitled Flames of War as well as an electronic version of al-Qaida magazine, Inspire 12.’
The Guardian, 17th July 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Online pirates could face jail terms of up to 10 years under plans being considered by the government.’
BBC News, 18th July 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A British man jailed in the US over a website considered to be a key moment in the birth of the internet jihad has returned home.’
BBC News, 19th July 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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