Following news that Mark Zuckerberg thinks children 13 years and younger should be allowed access to social networks, SEO experts Queryclick.com suggest he’s taking a logical stance.
Twitter has warned users that it is prepared to hand over their personal information to authorities if required by law, although it would notify them before they do so, following the recent controversy surrounding multiple breeches of gagging orders on the micro-blogging site.
Website operators have an extra year’s ‘grace period’ to change the way they use cookies to comply with new laws, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said.
No business should ignore the opportunities that cloud technology presents the results from those that have dabbled are compelling. This was the warning issued by a panel of business IT experts who gathered at a round table event held by hosting firm UKFast this month.
Last week the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a briefing note outlining the steps that e-businesses need to take in order to achieve compliance with the EU’s amended Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, which comes into force on 26th May 2011. In this Right to Reply article, the IMRG voices concern that usability may be … [Read more…]
How often do you wade through the regulatory filings of dotcoms? Not the most exciting of digital papers, but a tenacious researcher would have spotted one interesting item in Google’s recent footnotes – a $500m fund to settle the probe from US Department of Justice investigation into its ad practices. An accounting trick to reduce … [Read more…]
The theft of 70 million online gamers’ personal data in one of the largest privacy breaches to date, according to William Beer, a director in PwC’s information security practice.
The Digital Economy Act, a controversial new law to tackle online piracy in the UK, has been backed by the High Court, despite complaints from ISPs.
Younger children are increasingly setting up their own pages on social networking sites such as Facebook, finds a new study published today.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has dropped its investigation into whether BT’s Phorm technology unlawfully intercepted internet browsing data, due to ‘insufficient evidence’.