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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Outsourcing IT: The Governance Challenge
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….
Fame, Trains and Hypervisors
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Does Your Firewall Have an Open Door?
Chris James covers firewalls, the risk to information security and data protection….
What Price Paid for Content?
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….
What’s Your Poison?
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?…
AdWords: The ECJ Judgment
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…
EDPS Guidelines on Video-surveillance
The European Data Protection Supervisor has issued a ‘practical set of Guidelines to European institutions and bodies on how to use video-surveillance responsibly’….
EDPS and PbD
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)…
AdWords: Who Won?
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…