Testing times for UK Marketers – new laws may change the game

February 29th, 2012

These are testing times for UK marketers and those in the PR sector. New legislation is on the horizon which may curtail some of their current freedoms.

One new law and two proposed laws will make Marketing much tougher in the future.

Not great news in these difficult economic times!

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Privacy in social media – an impossible dream?

January 31st, 2012

The issue of privacy in social media is becoming a very ‘hot’ topic. Recently, emails have been whizzing around about LinkedIn changing their terms and conditions so that – unless you opt out – people could be used in their adverts without their knowledge.
Then yesterday this message came from Google:
“We’re getting rid of over 60 different privacy [...]

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Could the Leveson enquiry change UK media laws forever?

November 30th, 2011

Over the last few weeks celebrities and well known figures of every political hue – from Hugh Grant to Alaistair Campbell have been giving evidence to the Leveson enquiry on phone hacking and standards in journalism.

Yet it will probably not be the celebrities or the spin doctors – despite their righteous indignation – who force a lasting change in our privacy laws.

It will be the ‘ordinary’ people like the Dowler family or Chris Jefferies (Jo Yeates’ Bristol landlord) whose lives were adversely affected forever by the actions of the media, who will finally bring about a sea-change in our laws

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