Over a period of 12 months, the FSA has been carrying out a review of financial promotions on the Internet, focusing on 130 Web sites. It has concerns arising from the Internet’s ‘immediacy and ability to link online advertising to online direct sales it potentially presents a high risk to consumers’. The aim was to…
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The loss of CDs containing the personal information of 25M UK citizens has rightly caused an out-pouring of ‘Shame on you’ on HMRC and prompted questions like ‘How could you let this happen?’ The real question that the British people should be asking though is this: ‘Who else has lost my data that I haven’t…
The Olswang Convergence Consumer Survey 2007 is an online survey of 1,793 GB consumers, aged 13 to 55. What follows is an edited version of its Executive Summary and a link to the full survey appears below. Currently in its third year, the annual survey was conducted for Olswang by international polling agency YouGov Plc,…
Acting for Nevada-based games company Topware Interactive Inc, Davenport Lyons obtained a disclosure order from the High Court in London in February of this year requiring the relevant ISPs to disclose the identity of individuals owning the internet connections used to upload and illegally distribute Topware’s Dream Pinball 3D game….
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The EU Commission has proposed a Single European Telecoms Market for 500 million consumers…
Duncan Spiers reports on the Scottish Society for Computers and Law’s Annual Lecture, given by Professor Eben Moglen of Columbia University, New York on the topic ‘The Global Software Industry in Transformation: After GPLv3.’…
Davina Garrod and Benoît Keane analyse the significance of the judgment in the long-running EU action against Microsoft….
Three falls and a submission? Microsoft’s competition battle seems to be really settled at last….
A Web site is ‘closed down’ for creating links to illegal content. Read the FACT press release and links to comment….
David Crocker looks at the special hoops that must be jumped through before selling software to the US government….