Google faces new data privacy investigation
Google is to be reinvestigated over new claims that it deliberately collected personal data, including emails and passwords, while it was capturing images for its…
How to delete cookies files
Following my blog post yesterday- New cookies data law kicks in I was asked how to delete cookies from other browsers- as I had only…
New cookies data law kicks in
From yesterday UK websites must obtain “informed consent” from visitors before saving a cookie file on a visitor’s machine.Cookies are small text files that allow…
Waterstones teams up with Amazon’s to sell Kindle book reader
In a surprising development UK bookseller Waterstones is to sell Amazon’s Kindle book reader.Only last week we posted in Digital book sales increase by 54pc…
eBay sales targeted by HMRC tax evasion
Online eBay sales traders are the latest group to be targeted by the HMRC against tax evasion.People who trade on websites such as eBay have…
Scottish brewer uses Twitter to sink Goliath Diagio
A small Scottish beer company BrewDog has used Twitter to shame Diageo into a public apology after exposing the global drinks giant for using “dirty…
UK broadband plans will slow online business growth
A £1.1 billion funding gap means the UK government’s targets for broadband growth are unlikely to be met predicts a report by the London School…
Judge starts UK Internet censorship
A High Court judge has started censoring the Internet in the UK by ruling that the file sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked…
Olympic officials wake up to the Online World
Olympic officials have woken up to the real online world and admitted that their ban on spectators posting videos and images on websites will be…
Tim Berners-Lee wants governments to stop snooping bills
Sir Tim Berners-Lee said that it was moves by governments to control or spy on the internet that ‘keep him up most at night’. The…