Results tagged “european commission” from Birmingham Mail - Technobabble

More than 200 European websites selling electronic goods were warned today they face fines or closure unless they clean up misleading consumer information.

The European Commission said a "sweep" of 369 websites selling cameras, computers, mobile phones, DVD players and games consoles had revealed that 55% - 203 - were breaching EU consumer rules.

The unnamed sites include six of the UK 14 and six of the Irish 15 which were included in the "sweep", which was the third carried out by national authorities and co-ordinated across the EU by the Commission.

The law is currently still being formed on computer privacy.

Currently the internet resembles something like the 'wild west' with a fairly lawless frontier environment.

In most cases laws actually exist but few resources are dedicated towards enforcing them and protecting people - not least because there are no real borders online, so enforcing locally held laws is incredibly complex and difficult.

In my opinion one of the areas which certainly needs more attention is that of the 'tracking' programmes which seemingly get downloaded with great frequency, often contained in cookies.