law

Do I Need SSL For GDPR?

The new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) will come into force on May 25th, 2018 and if you make it through all 261 pages of the document, you’ll find the ICO hasn’t committed to an actual directive regarding encrypting data sent from a website’s web-form. ‘Encryption’ is mentioned 4 times in the document; …implement measures…

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Twitter To Reveal Who Is Behind Each Election Ad

Twitter has finally put its foot down and is now set to include labels in election related ads, revealing to users who exactly is behind them… Click here for the full article.

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ISIS Sympathizer Jailed For Using Social Media To Promote Violent Acts

Terrence McNeil, an Ohio man and ISIS devotee pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for re-blogging an alarming GIF on the social media site Tumblr. Click here for the full article.

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42 Of Disney’s Gaming Apps Filed in A Lawsuit Claiming They Are Spying On Users

Disney. Every child loves it! Its the shows and the films they watch every day, the characters that they wish to meet, and the resorts that they fantasize of visiting… For years and years, the company has been known to the youth as “The place where dreams come true”. Now, the company are getting sued…

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Reactions To Google Being Fined Over Shopping Ad Abuse

The news has spread: ‘Google Fined £2.1 Billion By The EU For Manipulating Search Results‘. And it is coming more and more apparent that a lot of people already knew what Google was doing, without having to read the case in too much detail… Click here to read on.

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Google Fined £2.1 Billion By The EU For Manipulating Search Results

It goes without saying – Google’s flagship product is the search engine. The multinational corporation is believed to turn entrepreneurs dollars into dreams by promoting their products through ‘search’. But are Google abusing their power by giving their own items an illegitimate advantage? The European Union (EU) has ultimately laid down the law to Google,…

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The Results Of The UK Election Puts Digital Infrastructure Plans In Danger

Following The London Bridge and Manchester terrorist attacks, Prime Minister Theresa May has made it her prime focus to put in more sturdy laws in relation to social media, however, last weeks legislative losses have made it hard for Mrs May to pursue her agenda… Click here to read on.

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Should Social Media Be Held Accountable For Failing To Remove Extremist Content?

Following the Manchester terror attack, the argument that UK should do more in handling extremists on the internet has entered the limelight… Click here to read more.

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THE FALLACIES OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

Since existence, false information has polluted the web… Copyright as we all know is a complicated law to grasp. So inevitably, when i first came into contact with copyright I was exposed to a great deal of myths and misconceptions. Confessedly, despite my attempt to keep myself clear of entanglements, I (like many) still fell…

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Cookie Law, What Is It? And How To Follow The Legislation

If you have no idea what “Cookie Law” means, you may want to educate yourself a little bit before making your site go live to EU customers and viewers. This article from Comparitech explains https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/how-to-comply-with-cookie-legislation/

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