Inform’s Blog has an entry discussing the UK tabloids’ coverage of yet another sex scandal involving a sports figure. I’ll skip the rehash of coverage and links to the tabloid coverage they critique to cut to their main point about the Press Complaints Commission (PCC): The breaches of the PCC Code relating to privacy are…
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Film industry hires cyber hitmen to take down internet pirates
Ben Grubb has a somewhat mind-boggling news story about how the film industry has hired firms to, well, engage in cybercrime: The film industry is using pirate tactics to beat the pirates – by employing “cyber hitmen” to launch attacks that take out websites hosting illegal movies. Girish Kumar, managing director of Aiplex Software, a firm…
Advertisers get hands stuck inside HTML5 database cookie jar
Jacqui Cheng writes: … some of our readers drew our attention to something called RLDGUID, a Safari database that has been popping up more and more on iOS devices. What is it, who put it there, and what purpose does it serve? The company behind this database, Ringleader Digital, is basically using some of the…
After months of nudging, ICO confirms TalkTalk probe
Tom Jowitt reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has confirmed it is looking into the process that TalkTalk uses to monitor the web addresses that its customers are using. The news that TalkTalk was monitoring its customers’ online activity, as part of a trial for a new anti-malware system, first came to light in late July….