Aug 19, 2013 | Online advertising, Regulation
Google has come under fire for comments made in a recent UK privacy case, claiming that users of its Gmail service users should not expect privacy when they send messages to a Gmail account. The comments were revealed in legal documents filed by the company in...
Aug 15, 2013 | Regulation
New research from Deloitte has found it would take British internet users 31 hours to wade through the privacy policies of all the websites they visited in a year. Data Nation 2013: Balancing growth and responsibility considered Great Britain’s attitudes to data...
Aug 14, 2013 | Regulation
In a rare public disclosure, the US agency behind the recent PRISM web-spying scandal has released documents that show it only has access of 1.6% of global internet traffic. The National Security Agency made the claims in a rare, publicly-released document defending...
Aug 13, 2013 | Regulation
File-sharing website The Pirate Bay has launched a browser designed to avoid blocks from internet service providers (ISPs) on its site and other similar webpages. The browser, called PirateBrowser, was launched as a ‘gift’ from The Pirate Bay to its users...
Aug 8, 2013 | Regulation, Social media, Twitter marketing
ITV has dropped threats of legal action against Channel 4 over allegations that stars of Coronation Street were breaching marketing rules by promoting companies on Twitter in exchange for gifts. The allegations were made in the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary Celebs,...
Aug 7, 2013 | Mobile, Regulation, USA
A ban on sales of older models of Apple’s iPad and iPhone in the US has been overturned by the Obama administration. President Barack Obama’s trade representative then vetoed the decision because of its “effect on competitive conditions in the US...
Jul 29, 2013 | Regulation
The UK Government’s controversial plans to impose an opt-out filter on internet porn could be extended to other content, according to reports. The news has fuelled speculation that Chinese telecoms giant Huawei will oversee the UK porn filter. Last week, Prime...
Jul 29, 2013 | Regulation, Social media
Tumblr has attracted criticism for banning certain tags on certain porn-related search terms. In its defence, Yahoo-owned Tumblr said the move was introduced “to adhere to the requirements of particular app environments”. The blogging site started blocking...
Jul 26, 2013 | Regulation, Social media, Twitter marketing
Twitter has come under fire for posting fake tweets from real users ito promote its new ad platform. Hey @Neil_Gottlieb, @WilliamMazeo, @subhash_tewari – so sorry about the confusion earlier today. We're fixing the problem now.— Twitter Advertising...
Jul 25, 2013 | Content marketing, Regulation
Google has sparked controversy with its redesigned Gmail tabs, with users noticing they are getting ads from companies they did not sign up to receive. Watch the Google promo touting Gmail’s new features below: The news follows Google’s redesign of Gmail back in...
Jul 19, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Regulation
For a moment this week, a US man became the world’s richest person – with a wealth one thousand times greater than the GDP of the whole planet, after PayPal mistakenly credited him with $92 quadrillion (£60 quadrillion). The online money-transfer firm...
Jul 17, 2013 | Regulation, USA
Yahoo has been allowed to prove it fought against the National Security Agency’s internet spying program, PRISM, as details of the surveillance programme look set to be revealed. Since the Prism web spying scandal emerged last month, Yahoo, Google and others have been...
Jul 12, 2013 | Regulation
As the web spying scandal grows, the latest report from the Guardian claims that Microsoft worked with the US spies so they could access emails, including Hotmail, and listen in on Skype video calls to view the messages, before they were encrypted. While it was...
Jul 11, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile, Regulation
Apple has been found guilty of working with 5 major publishers, including Penguin, to raise prices of electronic books in the US. In her ruling, US judge Denise Cote said there was “overwhelming” evidence showing the company acted knowingly and unlawfully...
Jul 11, 2013 | France, Regulation
France’s ‘three strikes’ anti-piracy measure, introduced in 2009 under Nicolas Sarkozy, has been replaced with a system of automatic fines. The law. commonly referred to as the ‘Hadopi law’, disconnected those suspected of copyright infringement. Users...
Jul 8, 2013 | Mobile, Online advertising, Regulation, Social media
More than half (52%) of Brits would rather share details of their sexual orientation than their mobile number, and on average have four email addresses and two mobile phones registered to them, according into new research looking into consumer attitudes to online...
Jul 1, 2013 | CPG, Facebook marketing, FMCG digital marketing food and beverages, Online advertising, Regulation, Social media
Facebook has removed display ads from pages showing adult content after two major UK advertisers suspended their ads on the social network. Marks & Spencer and Sky owner BSkyB informed Facebook that they had serious concerns about their names appearing next to...
Jun 25, 2013 | Facebook marketing, Regulation, Social media
A fault with Facebook’s data archive has led to the Personal details of about six million people being exposed accidentally. Private email and telephone numbers were unintentionally shared with people who would not otherwise have had access to the information. So far,...
Jun 24, 2013 | Regulation
Google has been given 35 days to delete any remaining data it collected ‘mistakely’ from its Street View mapping service. The ultimatum, issued by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, means Google has just over a month to delete the data from its databases...
Jun 19, 2013 | Regulation
Internet giant Google has pledged to donate £1m to the British charity The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which monitors online child porn. IWF is an industry-funded organization that identifies and helps remove criminal content online. According to reports, Google...