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20 Apr 2012
The European Central Bank (ECB) is consulting on new standards to increase the security of internet payments in the European Union.
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19 Apr 2012
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has declined to rule on whether two front page newspaper articles promoting a new lottery competition were marketing communications, saying that the content was "outside its remit".
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11 Apr 2012
Big-name retailers will emerge from the current economic slump with bright prospects if they tailor their businesses to suit consumers' shopping habits, an expert has said. Accountancy firm Deloitte has reported an increase in the number of retailers...
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11 Apr 2012
Google may be liable for direct and contributory trade mark infringement as well as trade mark dilution in the way it allowed a language learning software company's trade marks to be bought as keyword advertising terms by others, a US court has ruled....
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10 Apr 2012
The UK's data protection watchdog is not likely to take action against the users of data analytics cookies on websites even if they fall foul of new EU rules on cookie consent, it has said.
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05 Apr 2012
Companies cannot claim that the product they are advertising is '... as seen on TV ' or '... as seen in' certain publications if those products merely featured as unbranded props in programmes or in paid-for ads in those mediums, an ad body has said....
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05 Apr 2012
TripAdvisor has sent a complaint about Google to the European Commission alleging that the internet giant is engaged in anti-competitive behaviour.
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04 Apr 2012
Social networking sites need to obtain users' "informed consent" before suggesting to other users that those individuals feature in photos that they are uploading to the site, an EU privacy watchdog has said.
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04 Apr 2012
Internet service providers (ISPs) would be required to prevent customers accessing pornographic images unless those customers actively notify the ISPs that they want to access the material if draft new UK legislation being proposed receives backing.
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03 Apr 2012
New legislation that would enable a UK intelligence agency to monitor data from internet communications in real time without a warrant could be challenged at EU level unless other privacy safeguards limit the scope of that monitoring, an expert has said....
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