What can businesses learn from a legal perspective as the pandemic and its series of lockdowns starts to unwind? Covid-19 is the latest crisis but it will probably not be the last global crisis in our working lives. Indeed, they …
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China Domain Registry Spam
Two things happen in close conjunction and suddenly the email that your email software thinks is spam, and you think is spam takes on that little bit of additional significance. You sense it’s a time waster but you just need …
Read MoreEmails and confidentiality
Let’s say you are a successful small business and you get taken over by a much larger one. As part of the deal, you transfer all the email accounts of all your employees to the buyer’s systems for the practical …
Read MoreNew Data Sharing Code of Practice
A new Data Sharing Code of Practice came into force on 5 October 2021. Put together by the Information Commissioner’s Office to replace a 2011 code, it aims to provide clear guidance and practical tools to businesses and organisations on …
Read MoreEvidence and messaging in 2021
Whenever a lawyer gives advice to a client particularly if the client has an issue with someone else, they are always thinking about evidence. How will you ever be able to rely on what was agreed, if the matter should …
Read MoreHigh Court dismisses claim for infringement of claims management database
There are times when you read a High Court judgement when you think it’s more of a soap opera than a legal analysis. But then you realise that it actually reflects business life as it operates in the real world, …
Read MoreThe curious case of blackjack.com – and domain names as personal property.
Blackjack.com was and probably still is, a valuable domain name. Cary Pinkowski bought it in 2000 for USD465, 000, set up a company called Hanger Holdings (“HH”) and brought in two other men as investors to run an online gambling …
Read MoreThe Virtual Legal World
Barrister Rebecca Keating raises some really good points about virtual hearings which are now becoming pretty standard and the future of an underresourced legal system forcing litigants down a path which will make it more uncomfortable than it is already. …
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The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Ticketmaster UK Limited £1.25million for failing to keep its customers’ personal data secure
The ICO found that Ticketmaster failed to put appropriate security measures in place to prevent a cyber-attack on a chat-bot installed on its online payment page. This failure to protect customer information was a breach of the GDPR.
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