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Why tech and social media companies should face stricter regulation and pay more tax

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Yair Cohen, a partner at Cohen Davis Solicitors, discusses the pros and cons of self-regulation and considers why the current taxation system is unfair. To understand the reasons behind the need to end the special treatment tech and social media companies receive by the UK and other Western governments, both, in terms of general regulations […]

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Remove search results from Google worldwide

Online privacy law, UK data protection lawyer /

So where do Europeans stand in relation to the removal of Google search results worldwide? Since Google ordered to remove search results worldwide, Europeans are eagerly awaiting the French High Court’s final decision on an appeal. In May 2015 French data regulator ordered Google  to apply Right to be Forgotten removals of search results not

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Consent and pornography and why sometimes no does not mean no

Online privacy law, Pornography law /

Consent and pornography and why sometimes no does not mean no An example of this might be an individual who is not a professional actor and who agreed to be paid a small sum of money, for participation in a hard-core pornographic film, where the amount paid was totally disproportionate to the actions they were required to perform or be subject to.

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Internet police in action: Yahoo scanned emails to help FBI.

Internet law expert interviews, Online privacy law, UK data protection lawyer /

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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Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo snooping is lawful just because we clicked “yes” to their Terms and Conditions which we never read anyway

Online privacy law, UK data protection lawyer /

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

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Bulk Personal Datasets collected by UK government includes solicitor client privileged information

Internet law expert interviews, Online privacy law /

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

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Legal implications for parents who post children pictures on Facebook

Internet law expert interviews, Online privacy law /

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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Harassment Injunction Lawyers Serve for the First Time Harassment Injunction via Instagram

Harassment injunctions, Internet defamation law, Internet law expert interviews, Online privacy law /

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

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CCTV Insecam website – ICO says it will try to shut the website

Online privacy law /

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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Social Media Sites and Corporate Social Responsibility - The Case Of Stan Collymor

Social Media Sites and Corporate Social Responsibility – The Case Of Stan Collymor

Content moderation, Internet defamation law, Online harassment law, Online privacy law, Social media legal expert, UK internet lawyer /

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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