Michael Frisby extracts one clear message from BSkyB v EDS, a message that needs to be carefully digested: it can be a thin line between overselling and fraudulent misrepresentation…
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Rupert Kendrick argues that organisations that fail to apply governance principles in the management of IT outsourcing projects are inviting project failure. His words of wisdom are likely to strike a chord with outsourcing lawyers whose clients have overlooked these principles. But they may be of equal interest to law firms considering any element of outsourcing….
Augment Your Reality in Watford…
Chris James covers firewalls, the risk to information security and data protection….
Tom Lingard and Theo Varcoe review the various revenue-raising models that newspapers, and the publishing industry in general, are having to consider. They also look at the difficulties that may arise on enforcing payment for protected online content….
SEO poisoning is an increasingly popular method of attack for cybercriminals and one that shows they are using more sophisticated techniques. In the last year, attackers have poisoned search results on everything from the MTV awards to Google Wave invitations. Patrik Runald asks what makes these attacks such a success, and what does this mean for 2010?…
The European Court of Justice has found that Google has not infringed trade mark law by allowing advertisers to purchase keywords corresponding to their competitors’ trade marks. However, it has prohibited advertisers from using such keywords when arranging for Google to display any ads which do not allow internet users easily to establish from which undertaking the goods or services covered by the ad in question originate…
The European Data Protection Supervisor has issued a ‘practical set of Guidelines to European institutions and bodies on how to use video-surveillance responsibly’….
The office of the European Data Protection Supervisor has been working overtime. In addition to its work on video surveillance guidelines, it published an Opinion on ‘Promoting trust in the information society by fostering data protection and privacy’ on 18 March. The focus is on privacy by design (PbD)…
The long awaited judgment in Google v Louis Vuitton (and practically every other trade mark holder in France) has left me wondering about winners and losers…