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Yair Cohen presents at the Internet Law Leadership Summit Las Vegas 2015

Social media harassment injunction to stop internet trolls. Specialist social media injunctions lawyer Yair Cohen is in the news

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.

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.

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.

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 […]

why it is so important to obtain legal advice quickly and not delay matters when it comes to online defamation.

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

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 the […]

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

What responsibilities do social media websites have towards their users? Should social media sites be regulated? Yair Cohen social media lawyer speaks to LBC

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?

A right to be forgotten Solicitors A right to be forgotten lawyers: New Google take-down requests. What does it mean to you?

Who owns your own image? Some legal advice about removing images from the internet. Yair Cohen social media lawyer

Remove review from yelp Can you remove fake reviews from Yelp even if Yelp tells you that you are doomed? 

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

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.

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.

Yair Cohen social media solicitor presents at Google Campus Tech-Tax event on Startup and Reputation management strategies