Anyone now applying for a domain name for a new website is no longer restricted to using “.com”, “.net”, “.co.uk” or any of the other domain name suffixes that we have become so familiar with. Instead, they can choose from a wide variety of alternatives, including “.city”, “.London”, “.company” and “.university”. Continue reading
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Tag: Sophie Pugh
Personalised greeting card company Moonpig recently became the latest in a string of companies to hit the headlines because of a flaw in its cyber security. The flaw was found by developer Paul Price back in August 2013. He contacted Moonpig and was told that it would fix the problem. Continue reading
The Data Protection Act: a stone to sling at the Facebook Goliath? – Rhory Robertson and Sophie Pugh
When you log into Facebook the first thing you see is your ‘newsfeed’: a seemingly random collection of messages, status updates and photographs posted by your Facebook friends. We say “seemingly random” with scepticism because of course Facebook is not so rudimentary. Continue reading
The Internet has revolutionised the way we live our lives. We can book anything from a holiday to a haircut, transfer money, buy and sell almost anything, trade in stocks and shares and even go in search of our ‘soul-mate’. Continue reading
Trolling is an artificial construct and much misunderstood: see Clare Brown’s article here. So it is no surprise to find the absence of any consistent law governing conduct on the internet as a whole. The internet transcends boundaries in a way that most national laws do not. Continue reading
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