Faceless fears: no one hears you scream online – it is far too distant and anonymous September 15, 2015 Opening shots René Carayol THERE IS rarely a business bulletin nowadays that doesn’t mention a significant successful fraud. This is of course not the full picture, as most businesses and many consumers do not feel compelled to report their perceived lax controls. It’s now nearly always a sophisticated cyber-attack or the now more prosaic online [...]
Tower Hamlets mayoral election: Police will be monitoring voting tomorrow to curb “fraudulent activity” June 10, 2015 It's not just voters who are heading to the polls in Tower Hamlets tomorrow – there will be a heavy police presence too. The Metropolitan Police will be overseeing the highly contested mayoral election, with officers stationed at polling booths around the borough in an effort to curb "fraudulent activity". Additional officers are [...]
Remote working: Ensuring an easy ride when employees work from home May 31, 2015 Even if they can sort the trust issue, there are still some key legal considerations for employers. We have become information junkies. The web is booming, thousands of apps come into being each month, and we have constant entertainment feeds to read and video clips to watch. And now, information has turned inwards – [...]
Tower Hamlets mayoral elections: Who are the candidates, who is going to win and how will the vote split change from last year? June 10, 2015 Tower Hamlets is going to the polls, for yet another hotly contested election, just one year after the last vote. Why is it being held now? Tower Hamlets voters went to polls just over a year ago, with incumbent Lutfer Rahman being returned with a small majority over his Labour rival John Biggs. [...]
Google Glass hit with ban from UK cinemas July 1, 2014 Piracy concerns have caused cinemas to ban the use of Google Glass in film screenings just eight days after the device was made available to tech fans in the UK. The body representing UK cinema operators told the Independent that customers wearing Google Glass will be asked to remove it when entering cinemas. The chief [...]
Facebook faces regulator probe into user experiment July 2, 2014 Regulators in the UK are investigating Facebook to assess if any data protection laws were broken when it conducted a controversial psychological experiment on users without their knowledge. The Information Commissioners Office (ICO), the government body which oversees data and privacy regulation in the UK, said it would question Facebook about the experiment although it [...]
City Moves for 12 January 2015 | Who’s switching jobs January 11, 2015 PwC Legal The professional services firm’s legal division has announced the appointment of Mick Gorrill. He is a data protection practitioner and, as assistant information commissioner at the Information Commissioner’s Office, he oversaw the introduction of data protection fines into law. RBC Wealth Management The wealth manager has announced the appointment of Antony Johnson as [...]
Budget 2016: George Osborne’s speech in full March 16, 2016 George Osborne has just revealed the Budget for 2016. There was good news for businesses with corporation tax being sliced and business rates being reformed – but bad news for smokers and students who hate maths. Mr Deputy Speaker, Today I report on an economy set to grow faster than any other major advanced economy in [...]
HMRC, FCA and PRA tell George Osborne they’ll work more closely together to share information at regular meetings after Banking Standards Review November 14, 2014 Financial regulators and HMRC have outlined plans to work more closely together in the wake of the government investigation into banking standards. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) will hold regular meetings with HMRC to better share information and expertise on “taxation, regulatory, prudential and consumer implications” that result from policy [...]
Facebook to face UK probe over user study July 2, 2014 BRITAIN’S data protection commissioner yesterday announced it would investigate Facebook over whether it had broken the law by conducting a controversial psychological experiment in 2012 on nearly 700,000 users without their consent. Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg yesterday apologised for “communicating really badly” about the experiment, which adjusted users’ news feeds to determine the [...]