European cookie law risks hurting UK tech business May 27, 2012 THE 12 month grace period for the Cookie law is over. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will now start to enforce regulations resricting the storage of personal data. Businesses which use cookies or other tracking techniques to gather information from website users must comply. The Cookie law is a European based law, and is being [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING May 16, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Google unveils search results rejig Google is preparing the biggest overhaul of its search results in five years, in a change likely to draw more fire from rivals amid intensifying antitrust investigations into the company. The new service will present users with detailed information about more than 500m “real world” items rather than [...]
Businesses need to plan for the Olympics if they want the summer to run smoothly October 16, 2011 London 2012 TIME TO GET READY THERE’S no general piece of advice.” I’m with Transport for London’s no-nonsense commissioner, Peter Hendy, and if he has one message he wants people to grasp about public transport during next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games, it is that every day and every part of town will be different. [...]
ANOTHER DAY THAT SHOOK THE MURDOCH EMPIRE July 12, 2011 8:00am Chairman of the home affairs committee Keith Vaz calls for information on “precisely what the officers did” in relation to the first investigation. 8:45am Gordon Brown says he was “in tears” when the Sun told him it would run a story about his son’s medical condition. He is careful not to claim reporters broke [...]
FACEBOOK: A LITTLE TOO SOCIAL NETWORK? January 23, 2011 YOU might think former Facebook president Sean Parker, who described Justin Timberlake’s portrayal of him in the movie The Social Network as “a complete fiction,” may have reason to be slightly annoyed. Trousersnake plays Parker as a Machiavellian, cocaine snorting wise guy who impresses a young Mark Zuckerberg by dating a Victoria’s Secret model. So [...]
Europe to share audit info globally January 19, 2011 MICHEL Barnier, the EU markets commissioner, stepped up efforts yesterday to extend scrutiny of auditors beyond the borders of the European Union. In a bid to ensure EU states access to more information about the audits done on major companies, the internal market and services commissioner has added ten non-EU states, including China, Switzerland and [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING March 16, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES BANKS SERVED LIBOR SUBPOENAS Regulators probing alleged manipulation of a key interbank lending rate have focused their demands for information and interviews on five global banks, according to people familiar with the investigation. UBS, Bank of America, Citigroup and Barclays have received subpoenas from US regulators probing the setting of the London interbank [...]
Google: Street View cars did pick up emails October 24, 2010 GOOGLE is to be reinvestigated by the Information Commissioner’s Office after admitting its “Street View” cars around the world accidentally collected more personal data than previously disclosed – including complete emails and passwords. A spokesman for the ICO, which finished an initial investigation in May, said: “We will be making enquires to see whether this [...]
Google set to build stronger controls to safeguard privacy October 26, 2010 GOOGLE is “building stronger controls” to safeguard privacy, a senior executive said yesterday after the search engine giant’s admission to inadvertently gathering emails and passwords across the globe. Peter Fleischer, Google’s global privacy counsel, told reporters at a conference on Internet security he was “puzzled” that users had made scant use of privacy controls made [...]
Internet search giant faces its first public grilling July 19, 2010 GOOGLE will today face a grilling by privacy campaigners who claim the firm should be held accountable for collecting sensitive personal information. It will face accusations its Street View project, which uses special cars to record photographic images and WiFi network data, intentionally collected unencrypted information, including private emails and bank details. Google strongly denies [...]