Online advertising is the fastest growing advertising medium and
a key source of income for many online services. An important
factor in this growth is the ability of sites to gather information
from consumers about their interests and browsing habits which is
then used to build up user-profiles so that advertising can be
tailored towards them. This practice, known as behavioural
advertising, has been the subject of data privacy concerns for some
time as the data collected may amount to personal data and be
subject to the Data Protection Act 1998....
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With the recent development of the service outsourcing industry, an increasing number of financial institutions (including banks, securities companies, insurance companies and fund management companies) use financial service outsourcing to reduce costs, enhance core competitiveness, and accomplish strategic goals.
If you have ever been involved in litigation, you know that the process of finding, collecting, reviewing and producing the evidence that supports your case is often difficult, lengthy and expensive.
While outsourcing has become commonplace in today’s business environment, the contracting process will, rightfully so, continue to challenge even the most senior outsourcing veterans.
An Argentinian appeal court has overturned a controversial 2008 ruling in which search engines had been made liable for the content of sites to which those search engines provided links in the results to users’ search requests.
On 30 July 2010, the Administrative Court refused an application
by ICO Satellite Limited (ICO) for judicial review of a decision by
the Office of Communications (Ofcom) to request the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to cancel ICO's
filing in the ITU's Master International Frequency Register
(MIFR) for the ICO-P mobile satellite communications system (ICO-P
satellite network).
An Article discussing the factors that US courts consider in determining whether a foreign company's website may subject it to personal jurisdiction in the US.
Prime Minister David Cameron is seeking help from credit reference agencies to combat benefit fraud in a bid to cut £1.5 billion from the annual welfare bill.
In the recent case of SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Ltd [2010] EWHC 1829 (Ch), the High Court has provisionally ruled that World Programming Limited did not infringe copyright in software by developing a program which emulated its functionality.
