What is the future of social media

 

Control over the most important communication tools for #startups is now at the hands of 5 internet giants. 

Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter may try to kick any serious competition out of business by collusion. Apple and Google may block access to their App Stores and Amazon may remove you from their servers. 

They would then send out clear signals to anyone who still does business with you that if they try to help your suffocating start-up survive, they would face a similar faith. There is no need for anyone to book a holiday this year to Italy. 

Sicily is here. Online, on your mobile phone, on you tablet. 5 internet giants acting like the gangsters where the only politics that matters is the politics of the mafia. Everything else is nothing but a heavy smoke screen. 

I remember the idealism of the early users of the internet. I remember Twitter mission statement which was or might still is “to give EVERYONE the power to create and share ideas and information instantly WITHOUT BARRIERS”. Forget nostalgia though. This is LinkedIn here. The social media platform for the forward thinkers. We need now to reflect on recent events and begin planning ahead. Everyone must do this. This exceptionally powerful and funny TV panel yesterday was looking at what is coming. Watch it!

 

Solicitor Yair Cohen explains how to stop online trolling

Online harassment laws need to change to help victims of online harassment get their lives back. 

Solicitors Yair Cohen's strategy will, for once and for all, bring an end to online trolling and harassment.

 The reality is that eventually there will be laws enacted to protect victims of online harassment from anonymous trolls. How long would we need to wait for this to happen, however, is unclear. 

Online harassment of individuals is as common now a days as using the internet. It has nearly become an acceptable way of behaving and a norm which we, as a society have been willing to accept.

As it happened, once certain members of Parliament started to become to subject of online harassment, together with a number of high profile cases of harassment of celebrity , things have started to change. Victims of defamation on the internet and of internet blackmail  have stated to speak out.

At the same time there is some recognition now that harassment on the internet is no different to the old fashion harassment that people used to suffer 20 or 30 years ago.

Anonymity on the internet plays a major factor in the increase of online harassment cases. Discovering the identity of online trolls plays a key part in combating this terrible phenomena which is called online trolling.

For more information and support in helping you get rid of your online trolls get in touch on 0207 183 4123 or visit our website https://www.internetlawcentre.co.uk/contact-the-internet-law-centre

CELEB TROLLS: WE’RE COMING TO GET YOU!

CELEB TROLLS: WE’RE COMING TO GET YOU!

Remove search results from Google worldwide

So where do Europeans stand in relation to the removal of Google search results worldwide? July 2017 update.

When you make a right to be forgotten submission, you would expect that Google will de-list the offending links from all its search engines worldwide. This however not always the case.

From the day Google was told to remove search results worldwide, Europeans residents are eagerly awaiting the French High Court’s decision on an appeal by Google.

 

remove search results from Google worldwide.

Google’s position is that it will not delist search results from all its search engine extensions. You can read here Google’s reasons for refusing to remove search results from Google worldwide.
The French data regulator’s position is that Google has come a long way in complying with European data requirements but only a measure that applies to all processing by the search engine, with no distinction between the extensions used and the geographical location of the internet user making a search, is legally adequate to meet the requirement under the Right to be Forgotten.

You can read the full article here
Removing search results from Google worldwide

 

Bulk Personal Datasets collected by UK government includes solicitor client privileged information

Bulk Personal Datasets collected by UK government includes solicitor client privileged information

A human rights watchdog - Privacy International - has obtained a cache of documents which shed light on UK’s controversial bulk personal datasets or BPDs. The BPDs are collections of personal data of people, most of whom do not present any particular interest for intelligence services. Their existence has been kept in secret for years, and little was known about the way the intelligence obtains and handles such information. But the newly released documents of the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters include a vast range of details on internal policies and procedures regarding BDPs. They cover a ten-year-long period from June 2005 to May 2015, and were released in response to a legal challenge filed by Privacy International last year. In particular, they provide information about what sort of personal information is included in BDPs, how it is categorized and acquired. According to the documents, the data is obtained through third-party voluntary suppliers. The key categories include info on one's biography, travels, finances and communications. Radio Sputnik linked up with Yair Cohen, London-based lawyer, an internet law specialist with the law firm Cohen Davis Solicitors, who explained to us how this information is supplied.