Internet Squatters: Eviction from a .IE Domain Name
Tess Crean outlines the dispute resolution procedure for .ie domain names….
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Telecoms & the Internet
Phight! Phight!
My new phavourite phing phrom Phorm….
Data Protection: Missing the Bigger Issue
In this opinion piece, Ian McDougall explains why he believes that the focus on data disasters and the technicalities of processing are obscuring the vision we need for a new way forward for data protection….
ICO Ruling on Street View
As anticipated, the Information Commissioner’s Office has given Google’s Street View the all-clear….
Hurrah for the ICO
The ICO have gained some street cred in dealing with Street View. But does it get two cheers or three?…
The Sinking of Pirate Bay
Nick McDonald believes that the decision by a Swedish court to convict Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde of assisting making available copyrighted content’ is potentially significant, but that caution needs to shown in immediately suggesting it will have wider effect….
Rough Guide to Wikis: The “Do”s
The KM Group’s last event of 2008 discussed wikis, the good the bad and the ugly. This the first in a 2 part blog of “do”s and “don’t”s…
Web 2.0 and Online Reputation Monitoring
Shireen Smith tells us about online reputations: how to protect them and how to monitor them. She suggests that there may be a new role for lawyers here….
Has the ICO Swung behind Opt-outs in Behavioural Advertising?
The debate about the protection of individual privacy on the Internet could be about to take a new twist with the apparent removal of a statement supporting an opt-in regime for online behavioural advertising (OBA) from the website of the Information Commissioner’s Office….
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Cybersquatting Record
WIPO has revealed that 2008 was a record year for cybersquatting disputes and has expressed concern about the forthcoming new gTLDs….