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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
22 September 2014
Cybercrime - what should your business do to protect itself?
Mornings for some consist of checking Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, work and personal email accounts before leaving the house. Throughout the day a large number of us will go on to check our bank balance, book a restaurant, do our food shopping, deal with clients, book our next holiday or train home, all online. But, do we really know how secure our data is and who has access to it?
8 May 2014
You, your data and your fridge - issues of privacy and data protection
The main focus of this blog is the challenges faced by the law to monitor and regulate the fields of privacy and data protection in an inter-connected world.
20 March 2014
Misuse of private information – anonymised tracking, profiling and targeting
Whilst the Data Protection Act 1998 and E-Privacy Directive go a long way to preventing the abuse of personal data, the regime is far from watertight. The adtech industry makes extensive use of “anonymous” tracking to study the browsing activities of consumers and then serve them relevant contextual ads.
27 February 2014
Data Protection Revisited – Hacking, Leaking and Cloud Concerns in 2014
Hardly a day goes by without a new story about another cyber-attack, leaked or hacked passwords or log-ins.
25 July 2013
Do Not Track – positive for privacy or the end of the internet as we know it?
As I mentioned in my blog ‘Targeted advertising and privacy’ last week, Do Not Track (DNT) is a system which sends out a line of code to third party websites indicating that they should disable their tracking of a user’s web browser activities. DNT prevents the gathering of data which enables tailored behavioural advertising. This system is currently voluntary meaning that a user generally has to opt in to DNT and then rely on a website to understand and respect the DNT signal its browser sends out.