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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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