Singapore consumers will soon be able to use their mobile phones to identify themselves online under a project run by the country’s three mobile operators. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →The European Commission may impose limits on the use of mobile phones abroad after roaming fees are scrapped in 2017, the Financial Times has reported. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →A cyber attack on the routers of Deutsche Telekom customers failed to infect the devices but caused crashes or “restrictions” in 4-5% of cases, the company has said. Read Complete […]
Continue Reading →The UK will ratify the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement, the government has said. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →The amount of tax potentially underpaid by big businesses by shifting profits to other jurisdictions has increased by 60% in the last year, to £3.8 billion, HM Revenue and Customs […]
Continue Reading →The independent National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) is to examine how new technology can best be harnessed to improve infrastructure productivity following a request by the UK Treasury. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has announced that more than 100 countries have reached agreement on a single multilateral instrument, which will be used to close avoidance […]
Continue Reading →Edinburgh-based flight booking platform Skyscanner has been bought by China’s largest travel agency Ctrip International for £1.4 billion. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →Changes to the employment tax system to reflect different ways of working are needed to ensure that the UK tax base is “sustainable”, the chancellor has said. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →UK chancellor Philip Hammond is expected to announce funding for ‘full-fibre’ broadband in Wednesday’s Autumn Statement, according to media reports. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →The UK’s telecoms regulator has outlined plans to prevent BT/EE from bidding for a share of spectrum that will be made available to support the delivery of ‘4G’ services. Read […]
Continue Reading →Personal data belonging to more than 133,000 Three customers was compromised by fraudsters, the mobile network operator has confirmed. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →User rating and review services provided by online platforms can help reduce the need to regulate the ‘sharing economy’, according to a report by a US regulator. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →Lawyers from 32 countries have created the Cloud Privacy Check (CPC), the largest European information platform explaining data protection laws in the simplest possible terms and free of charge. The […]
Continue Reading →Mobile network provider Three has tried to distance itself from comparisons with TalkTalk after a data breach at the company allowed fraudsters to intercept mobile devices which customers were eligible […]
Continue Reading →Two telecommunications providers have been prequalified to take part in an upcoming spectrum auction that will allow one of them to become Singapore’s fourth mobile network operator (MNO). Read Complete […]
Continue Reading →Consumers should not have had to actively provide their personal data in return for digital content to be supplied to them to benefit from consumer protection rights relating to the […]
Continue Reading →UK rules on broadband advertising are to be updated, the bodies that write and enforce the rules have said. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →A case before the EU’s highest court should help clarify whether online platform bans should automatically be considered as breaching competition laws, a UK competition regulator has said. Read Complete […]
Continue Reading →New UK surveillance laws have been finalised in the UK parliament. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →Businesses whose employees are aware of a data breach but fail to notify regulators and customers could be hit with larger fines when the incident subsequently comes to light, an […]
Continue Reading →Businesses that establish and implement a legal and PR action plan stand a better chance of combating online threats to their corporate reputations, an expert has said. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →Businesses that own or manage networks in China, as well as those that provide network services in the country, could be forced to pay fines of up to 10 times […]
Continue Reading →The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has reached agreement with four cloud storage providers over changes to the companies’ consumer contracts. Read Complete Article
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