The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will investigate whether behavioural advertising and individually-targeted prices on the internet violate the rights of UK consumers’. The Government body announced two investigations today which will probe whether online retailers’ use of tracking and targeting technology and advertising are unfair on consumers. “[An investigation] into online targeting of advertising…
Manchester Airport rethinks strip-scanner for kids
John Ozimek reports: Manchester Airport will be taking legal advice on proposals to send children through its new X-ray scanners. This is a change from its position, reported in The Register yesterday, that they did not believe the images created by the new scanning technology (the slightly unfortunately named Rapiscan) would fall foul of child…
UPDATE: Microsoft recovers ‘most, if not all’ Sidekick users’ data
Mary Jo Foley reports: On October 15, Microsoft reversed itself, claiming now that instead of losing all of the personal data of Sidekick users, it has recovered “most, if not all” of it. (Over the past few days, Microsoft has moved from saying all data was lost, to some, to possibly none.) From a note…
From Facebook ‘poke’ to pokey?
From Legal Blog Watch: On June 10, a court issued a protective order prohibiting Shannon D. Jackson of Hendersonville, Tenn., from “telephoning, contacting or otherwise communicating with” another Hendersonville woman, either “directly or indirectly.” On Friday, Sept. 25, Jackson was “extremely shocked” when police arrested her for allegedly violating the order. Authorities in Hendersonville say…