Category: Law

  • Get ready for the cookie law

    A lot of attention was focused earlier this year on cookies, those little snips of coded text that websites automatically place on your computer when you visit those sites with your web browser. The attention on cookies was all to…

  • How to hack a phone like News of The World journalists did

    Via Reuters: World renowned computer hacker, Kevin Mitnick, shows you step-by-step how the News of the World journalists hacked into private voicemails. Shockingly easy to do with some open source software as Mitnick explains. If you access your mobile phone…

  • Common sense prevails on social disorder and social networks

    Yesterday, Home Secretary Theresa May met with representatives of Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger and the police in a widely-reported get-together to discuss the rights and responsibilities of the users of social networks, and the rights and responsibilities of the…

  • NLA licensing creates FUD says Meltwater

    The idea of having to pay to share links to online content published by the mainstream media is one that has stimulated much debate in the UK in recent months. Not only that, it’s generated strong opposition in the PR…

  • NLA wins latest move in ‘pay for clicks’ battle

    Yesterday, the Court of Appeal in London ruled in favour of the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) in a long-running legal battle over licensing of links to content published in the mainstream media. The latest ruling upheld an earlier court decision…