Dr. Antonio Ghio, President of the Malta IT Law Association has addressed the NSTF Mini European Assembly today, Friday 15th April 2016. Below is the speech delivered: Honourable Members of […]
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Continue Reading →FOCUS: New cloud outage incident response (COIR) guidelines in Singapore can help cloud providers and the businesses that use their services to manage data breaches in line with the country’s […]
Continue Reading →The EU’s highest court will hear arguments on Tuesday concerning the validity of UK data retention laws. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →The European Commission should prohibit the merger of UK mobile network operators Three and O2 unless Three’s owner Hutchison Whampoa offers to sell off one of the businesses as a […]
Continue Reading →Ofcom is seeking input from broadband providers and industry stakeholders on how a new broadband universal service obligation (USO) should be designed. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →The act of posting a link to a website that features “freely accessible” copyright infringing content should not itself be classed as an act of copyright infringement, an advisor to […]
Continue Reading →A recent ruling by the High Court in London could help sports bodies and broadcasters clamp down on mobile apps that enable the unauthorised sharing of video footage from matches, […]
Continue Reading →A proportion of very high frequency (VHF) wireless spectrum will be reserved for future use by Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices, the UK telecoms regulator has announced. Read Complete […]
Continue Reading →Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) has failed in its bid to overturn a landmark ruling in which it was ordered to pay approximately £1.2 million in damages for infringing the privacy […]
Continue Reading →The UK government is remodelling big IT contracts as and when they expire as part of a broader drive to help SMEs win a larger share of work from government […]
Continue Reading →Consumers are partly prevented from accessing online services and content across the EU by “contractual barriers” put in place by businesses, the European Commission has said. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →Pay-TV viewers in Singapore will be given greater freedom to exit their contracts with providers early without charge under an updated media market conduct code set to come into force […]
Continue Reading →The UK government will set out a strategy next year with the aim of becoming a “world leader” in ‘5G’ mobile wireless communications, according chancellor George Osborne’s Budget announcement. Read […]
Continue Reading →Radio frequencies currently used by broadcasters and for supporting the use of wireless microphones at events will be made exclusively available to mobile network operators (MNOs) by “no later than […]
Continue Reading →The definition of regulated financial advice should be “narrowed” to catch only that which is based on personal recommendation, with firms also given more flexibility to help consumers make their […]
Continue Reading →US broadband providers will be subject to stiffer privacy rules under plans outlined by the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →Ofcom has informed broadcasters about the “misuse” of their data by a former employee. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →Businesses will be able to opt out an “unlimited” number of European patents from the jurisdiction of the new Unified Patent Court (UPC) at one time, Out-Law.com has learned. Read […]
Continue Reading →Internet service providers (ISPs) and mobile network operators (MNOs) will not be forced to unpick encryptions placed on communications they carry over their networks if the encryption has been applied […]
Continue Reading →Ad blocking could pose a threat to the existence of businesses in the creative industries, the UK’s culture secretary has warned. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →OPINION: EU policy makers would be wrong to regulate ‘over-the-top’ (OTT) communication services like Skype and WhatsApp in the same way as they do traditional telecoms operators like BT and […]
Continue Reading →Facebook’s data use policy is under investigation by Germany’s main competition authority. Read Complete Article
Continue Reading →The European Commission has approved the purchase of data storage company EMC by Dell. Read Complete Article
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