Catfishing happens when someone uses false identity to lure you into loving them. They pretend they are the person they believe you want them to be. Catfishing can be part of an illegal act of deception if for example the perpetrator obtain information by deception
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Source: Pressure by Credit Card Companies Helps Reduce Sex Crime Against Minors
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Internet police. A powerful book about the future policing of the internet; a platform from which the crying voices of victims of online crime can be loudly and clearly heard.
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The FBI has stepped up its effort to police the internet by requesting Yahoo to assist in developing software to scan emails which were going through YahooMail servers. Yahoo was reported to have agreed but the intrusion did not only affect YahooMail customers but also other email users who happened to communicate with a YahooMail
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The UK government is told it would be unlawful to create a law that requests internet service providers to retain user’s data for 12 months across the board. On Wednesday 21 December 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that it would be unlawful for the UK to enact laws that
Sextortion and other internet blackmail
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Is the right to be forgotten being extended to the USA . Yair Cohen, UK lawyer and internet law expert will be presenting at the Internet Law Leadership Summit in the USA about USA right to be forgotten
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Cohen Davis law society award in delivering excellent client care service. We do our best to deliver an outstanding level of internet law services to all our clients by opening our processes. Internet law experts UK. Strategies minute by minute, step by step.
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Google anti trust case. Google anti-trust case made simple. Internet lawyer Yair Cohen
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Lawsuit against Facebook . Radio interview with Yair Cohen, UK social media litigation lawyer. Facebook sued by Israeli and USA citizens over Palestinian attacks. Lawyers have filed a $1B lawsuit against Facebook, accusing it of knowingly supporting the Palestinian group Hamas. Law suit against Facebook might succeed. Facebook harassment legal advice
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The topic of Amazon fake business and product reviews was the centre of the BBC Radio 4 consumer affair program You and Yours. Amazon specialist lawyer Yair Cohen discusses the latest developments below.
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Bulk Personal Datasets collection by UK government includes solicitor client privileged information. The bulk personal datasets collected by British intelligence agencies is reminiscent of dark days and dark regimes, Yair Cohen, of the London-based law firm Cohen Davis Solicitors
In case of children, once they grow up, they might not wish to have their images expose to the world at large yet they might be prevented from doing anything about the publication. Images that were originally posted on Facebook by the child’s parent might since have been copied to other websites social media legal advice
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Can employer monitor employee email. As good practice employers who wish to monitor employee email should require employees not to use t the employer reserves the right to monitor employee email.
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Net neutrality abolished. Fast lane or slow lane and what the fuss is all about. fast lane an slow lane – what does it really mean and how this might affect you as an internet user.
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TalkTalk data breach can I leave Talk following the data breach without paying a penalty. What does my contract with talk talk says about breach of data protection and leaving talk talk
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Yair Cohen presents at the Internet Law Leadership Summit Las Vegas 2015
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Social media harassment injunction to stop internet trolls. Specialist social media injunctions lawyer Yair Cohen is in the news
Online harassment injunction first | Profile Yair Cohen| Law Society Gazette Read More »
Social media litigation lawyer obtained online harassment injunction to stop internet trolls abusing his victim on social media. Serving online harassment injunction via social media on Instagram. Yair Cohen social media lawyer specialises in difficult cases of online harassment and internet harassment law
Making successful right to be forgotten request from Google. Social media solicitor Yair Cohen explains how to avoid common mistakes in making an application under a right to be forgotten.
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The case of Hegglin v Google at the London High Court has been settled following the Judge’s criticism of Google in the previous hearing.
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Social media litigation solicitor Yair Cohen double sued internet user for harassment both under criminal law and then under civil law. A criminal conviction makes it far easier to claim compensation for harassment and defamation in a civil court.
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In October 2014, Joseph Cox first exposed the website Insecam.com, and the fact that the site was live streaming CCTV images from all over the world of people were completely unaware that there were being spied on. Today, the Guardian was quoting The information commissioner, Christopher Graham who has condemned Insecam, and said that he wants “the Russians
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why it is so important to obtain legal advice quickly and not delay matters when it comes to online defamation.
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What to do if your images are stolen and placed on the internet?
As hacked nude celebrity photos had been sold on the internet, Yair Cohen, social media lawyer
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Last year I was privileged to be invited to the Supreme Court to take part in the Model Law Commission project, a project that is supported by the Supreme Court and the Law Commission where a group of young students are encouraged to create law reforms based on their own personal experiences of society’s needs and with
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The truth, which every defamation solicitor who specialises in removing defamation from the internet should be able to tell you, is that the majority of the operators of review websites. business defamation on review website
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What responsibilities do social media websites have towards their users? Should social media sites be regulated? Yair Cohen social media lawyer speaks to LBC
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New online piracy laws are planned to be introduced as part of the Digital Economy Act 2010.
What do the new Piracy Laws mean to you?
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A right to be forgotten Solicitors A right to be forgotten lawyers: New Google take-down requests. What does it mean to you?
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Who owns your own image? Some legal advice about removing images from the internet. Yair Cohen social media lawyer
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Remove review from yelp Can you remove fake reviews from Yelp even if Yelp tells you that you are doomed?
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Yair is a Social media business solicitor who specialises in social media, internet law and online reputation of business. His clients include companies listed on the London stock exchange as well as start-ups
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No Longer Anonymous on the Web People who use fake names to post critical comments about companies on websites may not be as anonymous as they think, as firms use the courts to unmask online accusers.
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A Teen Girl’s Facebook Typo Led Horrified Stranger To Get Thousands Of Her Messages Over 9 months, a woman in North Carolina received over 14,000 Facebook messages intended for a teen girl in Mexico.
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Yair Cohen social media solicitor presents at Google Campus Tech-Tax event on Startup and Reputation management strategies
The key issue is whether it’s fair to place the entire burden of responsibility on the platform. Social media companies, while crucial in setting and enforcing community guidelines, cannot single-handedly control user behaviour.
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Social media lawyer Yair Cohen says that the internet and social media, through the collective wisdom and madness of the crowd is very judgemental and could be unforgiving.
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She was being harassed online, she said, but as our conversation deepened, it became clear that her torment was not unfolding in conventional online spaces but within the world of her Second Life character.
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