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The mobile market

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • January 28 2013

The United Kingdom's Office of Communications (Ofcom) announced that it has launched its auction of 800 Megahertz and 2.6 Gigahertz frequencies

Legislative outlook

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 3 2012

The House Communications Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled “Keeping the New Broadband Spectrum Law on Track” on December 12, 2012

Beware the UK cookie compliance monster

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 1 2012

The Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) in the United Kingdom is now stepping up its enforcement of the EU Cookie Directive

The mobile market

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • September 10 2012

Last week, the European Commission approved a joint venture in the United Kingdom between Vodafone, Telefonica (O2), and Everything Everywhere

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and privacy regulation

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 18 2012

In the wake of the FCC’s April 13, 2012 Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture to Google regarding Street View, the U.K.’s data protection agency, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), has opened its own inquiry into the matter

In the courts

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • March 12 2012

On March 6, 2012, the United Kingdom Court of Appeal, Civil Division, largely rejected the appeal of British Telecommunications (BT) and TalkTalk Telecom Group from a decision upholding certain provisions of the Digital Economy Act 2010

Photoshopped features lead to NAD action

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • January 5 2012

The National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau recently initiated an inquiry into a mascara advertisement featuring Taylor Swift, which resulted in the discontinuance of the advertisement

In the courts

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 31 2011

On October 26, 2011, the United Kingdom’s High Court, Chancery Division ruled that British Telecom has two weeks to implement an order requiring it to block its customers’ access to Newzbin2, a file-sharing site against which six Hollywood studios (Studios) have secured an injunction

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • Canada, United Kingdom, USA
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  • October 12 2010

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed three lower court rulings concluding that federal agents' computer searches relating to the use of steroids in professional baseball violated the Fourth Amendment

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 2 2010

On July 29, 2010, the Information Commissioner's Office of Great Britain announced that its privacy investigation of Google's StreetView revealed no wrongdoing by the company