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Accountancy regulators confront AI cheating in exams
Zoe Beels
5 August 2014
Revenge porn – no need to change the law
Last week’s report of the House of Lords Communications Committee has once again highlighted the increasing problem of “revenge porn”. Revenge porn arises when persons, often ex-partners, post sexually explicit pictures and videos on websites and social media networks to try to embarrass and humiliate the ex-partner following a break-up.
We have addressed the question of online abuse and harassment in a previous blog – “Anti Social Media: how the Law can Tackle Online Abuse and Harassment”.
1 August 2014
Illegal search and seizure outside the US? A customer’s emails stored in Ireland must be disclosed to US government investigators
A New York Court has held that Microsoft Corp must disclose to investigators the content of an unidentified customer’s MSN.com web based email account stored in a data center in Ireland that it controls and maintains to the US government in the context of an investigation. As the US District Judge upheld the Federal Magistrate’s decision, Microsoft, which argued that this was an illegal search and seizure of customer information held outside the US, lost its challenge to the US government search warrant. Microsoft has already indicated its intention to appeal.
30 June 2014
The rise and fall of privacy injunctions
In May 2011 a committee chaired by the Master of the Rolls published its report “Super Injunctions, Anonymised Injunctions and Open Justice” as a result of concerns around the growth of the use of super-injunctions and the increasing frequency with which High Court proceedings concerning the misuse of private of information were being anonymised.
24 June 2014
Online abuse - when is it a crime?
Yesterday, the BBC stated that complaints originating from social media make up "at least half" of calls passed on to front-line police officers.
5 June 2014
Legal Update: Celebrities challenge national newspaper over alleged defamatory articles
Singer and television personality Tulisa Contostavlos and actor and comedian Russell Brand have successfully brought claims against a national newspaper over defamatory articles published in the UK press. The details and outcomes of each case can be seen below.