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.
17 January 2014
Don’t shoot the messenger: Internet middlemen on the hook for actions of illegal website operators
Internet Service Providers could find themselves incurring substantial expense in protecting the copyright interests of others. Websites that exist beneath the radar of detection and infringe the copyright of others such as those that offer unlawful music downloads and streaming are likely escape scot free while ISPs are left to pick up the bill.
24 December 2013
Can you afford not to have a new Generic Top Level Domain?
Anyone who has ever tried to buy a house will know that location is everything. In London, house buyers will pay a premium for an average house in a sought-after postcode purely so they can utter those magic 3 words “NW3” or “SW3 at the end of their address. The internet is no different and with the recent launch of the gTLD program (Generic Top Level Domains), a whole raft of domain name suffixes has now become available, indeed Rich Merdinger cannily describes these domain names as “21st century real estate”.
28 October 2013
Misleading advertising: the games people play
If you have young children of your own or nieces or nephews you have probably endured hours of Dora the Explorer, Peppa Pig, In the Night Garden (I could go on) and will have therefore also borne witness to the barrage of advertising for various children’s toys and games and the “hard-sell” techniques targeted at young viewers...
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.