U.S. tech company Yahoo Inc is to face a class-action lawsuit in America. It is accused of illegally intercepting emails sent to Yahoo Mail accounts from non-Yahoo Mail users and using the content to focus advertising and boost revenue. Yahoo is accused of copying and analysing non-Yahoo Mail users emails, including attachments, in order to create “targeted advertising” for an estimated … Continue reading
New apps, including Periscope and Meerkat, can make anyone with a smartphone into a live newscaster. For business, this could mean a rethink of how live events are delivered and what can be done to protect valuable online and offline content. I joined the Arise News team to discuss the impact of live social broadcasting on … Continue reading
In the run-up to the General Election, I contributed a guest-blog to Byfield Consultancy, a specilaist legal PR and Communications agency in London. An earlier version of the blog can be viewed on the Byfield Consultancy website and is, in part, reproduced below. The YouTube election YouTube reached its tenth birthday in April 2015 and the … Continue reading
After years of conspiracy theories, anticipation and disappointment, Apple finally launched its catchily named AppleWatch on 24 April 2015. Will this change the horological world the way that the iPhone changed the mobile marketplace, or is this one innovation too far? First indications are that the AppleWatch will dominate the smartwatch market from day one. … Continue reading
As we move ever closer to election day, the dangers of discussing politics in the office, the pub or at home become ever more present. Sometimes the stakes can be high. Thinking about this, I recently wrote a feature for City AM’s Office Politics section, discussing political ding-dongs, in the office. The article is reproduced … Continue reading
A 25,000 member class action has been considered against Facebook by a court in Austria. Following alleged breaches of EU privacy law, mass surveillance and involvement in the NSA’s Prism snooping programme, privacy campaigner Max Schrems has officially filed the complaint which is currently being considered. A decision on whether the claim can succeed to a full consideration is … Continue reading
I was pleased to have been quoted as a ‘senior employment lawyer’ in an important story for business in the Independent and The i today. The story follows the closure of a USC fashion warehouse where employees were given only 15 minutes notice of their dismissal, expected to be sufficient time for proper consultation. The … Continue reading
Uber hit the headlines again this month. First following its announcement that it was partnering with UN Women to “work together around the world toward a shared vision of equality and women’s empowerment.” It promised to create one million jobs for women in the next 5 years within it’s global company, now operating in over … Continue reading
The systematic theft of up to $10million a time has resulted in a reported 100 banks being stung across 30 countries worldwide. Kaspersky Labs has said that a ‘professional’ hacking group has used basic phishing style techniques to infiltrate banks in Russia, the US, China and the UK, watching and waiting for months before taking … Continue reading
On 5 February 2015, I joined the Arise News team to discuss the indictment of Silk Road ‘mastermind’ Ross Ulbricht and what really happens on the ‘Darknet’. The creator of online marketplace Silk Road is now facing a lengthy prison sentence after a New York jury found him guilty on charges including narcotics trafficking, criminal enterprise, … Continue reading
Kevin Poulter 