Christopher Leake reports: The Government’s controversial Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has launched an investigation into how the car registrations of millions of motorists were sold for use by a giant oil firm. Castrol spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on a campaign promoting its oils, using giant advertising billboards on five major routes in…
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BPI alerts BT to 100,000 suspected illegal downloaders
Carrie-ann Skinner reports: BT has been given 100,000 IP addresses belonging to BT broadband customers suspected of illegally filesharing. According to the BPI, which provided BT with the addresses, the ISP has not yet acted on the information. Geoff Taylor, CEO of the BPI, told the Daily Mirror: “It’s shameful for a company like BT…
Those unwanted terrifying emails were from…. Toyota?
Over on Courthouse News, Tim Hull reports that an advertising firm and Toyota are being sued because an advertising campaign terrorized an email recipient: A woman says a “terror marketing” campaign that Saatchi & Saatchi created for Toyota made her believe a drunken English soccer hooligan with a pit bull would show up at her…
Since when does a legal entity have “privacy” rights?
Kristen J. Mathews writes: Since when does a legal entity have “privacy” rights? Since the Third Circuit said so, in its September 22, 2009 decision in AT&T v. Federal Communications Commission (No. 084024). Most privacy practitioners would not consider a legal entity to have privacy rights. Rather, a legal entity may have trade secrets or…