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Is deciding to use google fonts the sort of decision that makes an entity a controller rather than a processor?
In ensuring GDPR compliance determining which entities are data controllers and which data processors is a critical step. The UK government says:
The UK GDPR defines a controller as:
the natural or ...
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Is the BBC website out of compliance with the UK cookie regulations regarding consent and nudging techniques?
The United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) requires websites to make it as easy to reject non-essential cookies as to accept them and also outlaws "nudging techniques", ...
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Section 184 of the Canadian Criminal Code and Foreign Actors
This is inspired by recent events, but I will not be naming names.
My understanding of section 184 is that people in Canada are allowed to intercept communications by any means provided that they ...
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What decentralized services does the Online Safety Bill impose duties upon?
On Tuesday 19 September the Online Safety Bill passed its final Parliamentary debate and is now ready to become law. This is expected to happen imminently.
From wikipedia this law applies to:
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What rules determine jurisdiction on the internet?
It is in the news that Clearview AI has won an appeal against the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The reasons for judgment are here: Clearview AI Inc v The Information Commissioner [2023] ...
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How are "deep fakes" defined in the Online Safety Bill?
It is in the news that sharing deepfake intimate images to be criminalised in England and Wales in the Online Safety Bill:
Sharing deepfake intimate images is to be criminalised in England and Wales. ...
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Is selling program / liking bot legal?
Would it be legal to sell a program / bot that log into a website account and like others posts? Is it legal on the assumption that user is responsible for use of that program (getting ban is his ...
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Is releasing this company's documents illegal?
I run a website where I sell materials for students interested in finance, law and consulting. My website contains case studies from actual previous interviews. Recently, one of the firms' HR reached ...
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Manipulating product reviews
I obtained a product from an online vendor. At the time it had a 5-star rating, with three reviews praising what was an entirely different product.
The product wasn't very good, and I wrote a review ...
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Providing hyperlinks to another website that is publicly accessible. (UK Law)
I have a question about the ability to link to another website, either through hyperlinks alone, or by also using the thumbnail of the hyperlink. This question is specifically relating to the UK (if ...
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Can I scrape social media websites and advertise personal user information?
I have recently built a scraper that could collect user information from a variety of social media platforms, these include: Instagram, Twitter and Nextdoor.
The information provided to me are the ...
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When does giving a false name online become illegal?
I asked this question about providing false information to a web site. The answer indicates that it is illegal to supply a false identification document even without an intent to commit a further ...
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Is it legal to record streaming video for time shifting?
In the UK there is an explicit exception to copyright for the purpose of time shifting:
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the ...
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What are the limits of service provision/PII consent for compliance with GDPR?
Most of the internet business model can be described as providing data in exchange for seeing adverts. These adverts are worth a lot more if they can be targeted. The GDPR applies to this, such that ...
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Can you request response to SAR by web form?
When one makes a GDPR Subject Access Request (SAR), one can specify a particular form of response, for example by email. Also the data can be requested in a structured, commonly used and machine-...
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What is cyberstalking?
What constitutes cyberstalking? If I contacted a person online 4 times is that cyberstalking? (3 times were over email apologising for accidentally nearly logging onto their account and the 4th time I ...
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How does Google and other websites avoid infringing on 3rd party copyrights for displaying images for 'commercial' purposes?
I really hope someone would be able to clear things up, because this question has been bugging me for a long time now.
Google Images (and frequently Google Search as well) shows images associated with ...
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Does revealing the owner of an anonymous forum account breach GDPR (or other) laws?
This whole thing is to do with using an IP address to identify an anonymous forum account and then sharing details of the ownership of this account with another member.
I will explain the best I can:
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IP addresses in criminal cases
Are IP addresses enough to convict someone of criminal activity?
So for instance, if someone was using their home WiFi network, which would have one IP address, then they use their mobile network ...
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Perma-Banned from game for offsite comment - is that legal?
a friend and I play a pokemon-browsergame, which also offers monthly subscriptions for premium currency and benefits (=real money invested). We are also on a discord server with some friends, where we ...
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Is a terms & conditions generator good enough for my website?
I am currently in the process of setting up a website which will include affiliate links to vendors for various products.
I've been looking into the privacy policy and terms & conditions that i'...
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I have created an App to help isolated people in Corona Virus lockdown. Do GDPR rules apply
I have created an App at helpathome.me which isolated people can use to fill out a form and request help from others.
I innocently thought this would be fine but a friend told me that I must comply ...
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Is it illegal to NOT store logs within the UK? (VPN related)
Introduction:
I co-run a VPN company. I have a few legal questions since our service has a strict NO-LOG policy enforced.
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In the UK, it is illegal to store sensitive and private customer ...
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Checking out products for "free" [duplicate]
I added products to my digital "shopping cart" worth $700, I was going to pay for it and I'd filled in my adres and completed the form, however the site immediately directed me to the final phase of ...
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Does the GDPR mandate that web sites provide access to cookie settings?
Cross referenced this question with SO just to get more technical perspective
In this article it says with respect to:
Google Analytics and GDPR consent to cookies and tracking:
Based on a true ...
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Duty of care dilemma when reporting Web vulnerabilities to both Stakeholders and Web Service owner
Ok, I am going to ask this question with an Analogy.
A Locksmith is walking in the street and comes across a door. The door seems to be well secured to a normal user and is actually a door to safe ...
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Selling custom electronic projects online in the uk
(Sorry if I am posting in the wrong forum) I am wanting to have a go at selling some of my projects (mostly lighting: epoxy, led strips) after doing a search, it sounds like there are a lot of ...
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Does the UK have a legal precedent for "inherence" with refunding digital goods (& associated contracts)?
For example, if one were to purchase a digitally distributed video game, then a year or two later purchase DLC (or other content reliant on the game to be used), if a refund was obtained on the ...
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Do marketing emails require consent?
I am getting spammed with marketing emails from Tough Mudder. Their unsubscribe link takes me to a page where I have to either accept the fact they will send me emails or unsubscribe from everything, ...
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Is it illegal to use a proxy chain in the UK?
As you are all aware about the whole Facebook fiasco.... I am now wanting to be as anonymous as I can online, one method I found was to use a proxy chain. I am just wondering if it is legal in the UK ...
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Privacy policy for a non profit emailing list?
I am have recently created a website, where users can supply their email to receive mock programming briefs, once a day, for 32 days.
I would like to know what I need to include within a privacy ...
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Why aren't foreign VPN companies forced to keep logs?
This link explains the inconsistency with what VPN services consider 'logging'. Certainly, there is no way for us to verify their claims without an extremely rigorous independent audit. But even that ...
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Mailing bot illegal? [Social Experiment]
Hope I am in the right place for this type of question. I am a developer that would like to start up a little project that is kind of a social experiment.
The idea is that I setup a mailing bot with ...
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Do I require a UK casino operating licence to run a promotional tournament on my website?
I have for several years operated a website on which enthusiasts can play a niche boardgame against one another. The boardgame in question has recently been the subject of a Kickstarter campaign for a ...
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Hosting free comics on my website
I have paperback comics which I legally bought. I was wondering, if I scanned them into PDFs and uploaded them on my website for people to VIEW for free, not DOWNLOAD, would it be illegal? I'm in the ...
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Amazon account security breach
I have received an email from Amazon reporting a security breach on my account (which I do not believe it is genuine and it happens often because of my dynamic IP).
I have requested further details (...
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Do I have to take someone's picture off the internet if they ask me to?
About 2 years ago I was working on an online game. I asked a friend if I could base it on him (use his picture for the character) and he said yes. Back to current, he is asking me to take the game ...
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Accessing Internet Connected Devices with Default Credentials
In a world of ever increasing numbers of internet connected devices people are having more and more of their appliances exposed to the outside world: cameras, fridges, thermostats etc.
Many of these ...
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Is it legal to send web requests on behalf of an app user in the UK?
I wish to create an app which will order taxis from all available cab companies in the area and will cancel the other orders when at least one of the taxis is en route.
At the moment I am doing this ...
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Can a website only publish good reviews?
My mate was buying a car from AutoTrader UK and heavily relying on reviews in their website. When I mentioned it to a relative of mine who owns a car supermarket he said that to post a review in ...
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What constitutes publishing offensive material?
Recently an article was published in my local newspaper (Bedford, UK) saying a man had been charged with publishing offensive material. A quick Google search suggested that the definition for this is "...
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What effect does Brexit have on Britons' Right to be Forgotten?
As I understand it, the Right to be Forgotten was promulgated solely as an EU regulation1.
Assuming that the UK follows through and leaves the EU, would search engines no longer have to remove ...
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Is it illegal to aggregate and publish publically available personal information?
Is it against the law to aggregate and publish legally gathered, publically available information such as:
Social media usernames
Real names
Date of Birth
City/Country
Screenshots of posts/comments
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Is Showbox legal to use in the UK?
The Android app "Showbox" allows users to stream the latest movies (still in the cinema) to their device for watching (but not keeping). Is this app legal to use in the UK?
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Is our website responsible for users' offline actions?
On our website clients find models for their photo shootings, castings, promotional events, etc.
A client transfers an escrow payment to us and when a model finishes the job we sent the money to the ...
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Providing exam solutions?
Some universities do not provide solutions/mark-schemes to exam papers. If someone (e.g. a student) was to upload online (e.g. via a blog or in a document) solutions that they themselves have made ...
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My nickname violate the Google+ Names Policy, how about my privacy?
I would like to use my nickname instead of full name when commenting on random posts within Google network.
However when I wanted to enforce that (by changing my Full Name into nickname), I found out ...
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Where do telecommunication crimes take place?
In the United Kingdom, where does a telecommunication crime take place?
Is it the location of the criminal or the victim?
For instance, if you hacked a computer in London, but you were based in ...
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Internet banking regulations in the UK
I'm writing a report for some University coursework, in which I am supposed to analyse the security of an online bank.
I'm trying, with some difficulty, to find any laws/regulations/standards that ...
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Transferring public domain material into a country where it is still in copyright
I've noticed that, in Australia, books created by authors who've died before 1955 are in the public domain.
For example, all of George Orwell's works are available from the University of Adelaide: ...
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