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20 May 2013
Businesses must be more transparent about the way they collect information about consumers in order to offer personalised prices for goods and services online, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said.
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17 May 2013
New rules have been drafted which would prohibit 'ambush marketing' and illegal street trading during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
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26 Apr 2013
Google has offered to differentiate results for its own "specialised search services" from others displayed in its search engine listings as one of a number of measures aimed at addressing EU competition concerns.
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11 Apr 2013
Retail banks in Europe are not as fully engaged with social media as counterparts in the Asia-Pacific and US market, according to market analysts.
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08 Apr 2013
Website operators in Poland can serve 'cookies' to internet users in circumstances where “informed users” have taken no action at all because that inaction is said to signal their consent to receiving them, an expert has said.
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27 Mar 2013
A Hong Kong-based data privacy expert has warned businesses in the country against ignoring new rules on direct marketing.
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18 Mar 2013
The European Commission is to crack down on aggressive commercial practices, which it claims are discouraging consumers from shopping with other member states online.
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15 Mar 2013
A consumer protection regulator in the US has threatened to take enforcement action against businesses that fail to properly qualify the claims they make in adverts on social media.
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11 Mar 2013
The EU Commission looks set to soften data protection reforms in a way that will favour business interests, an expert has said.
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07 Mar 2013
The Government has confirmed its intention to transfer regulatory responsibility for the payday lending sector to the new Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) from April 2014.
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