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They know their name, address, where they work, details about their family, and then they demand payment. The victims haven't got a lot of time, they feel they have just a matter of minutes — so some pay out and nobody hears about it and the case goes unknown, or sometimes they decide not to pay and contact a specialist social media and internet lawyer.<br />
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You, as a TalkTalk customer, may feel that following the recent data breach, it is appropriate that TalkTalk allows you to leave without having to pay penalty charges. I you ask “Can I leave TalkTalk without a paying exit charges”, you need to listen to to BBC Radio 4 interview with internet and social media lawyer Yair Cohen. Yair analysed the TalkTalk contract on behalf of BBC radio 4 PM show. Listen here: <a href="http://yaircohen.co.uk/2015/10/talktalk-data-breach-leaving-talk-talk/" target="_blank">TalkTalk data breach can I leave TalkTalk?</a>The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.comUnited Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.188318500000001 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-86698976736476517432015-09-01T09:40:00.000-07:002015-09-07T08:08:06.449-07:00Defamation solicitor servers an injunction via social media<br />
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Defamation solicitor Yair Cohen has made a bit of history recently by being the first solicitor to obtain permission from a judge to serve an injunction on an unknown internet troll via Instagram, the popular photo-sharing social media platform. The harassment injunction was granted against the defendant to prevent harassment, defamation and the disclosure of private information, but without knowing the identity or address of the defendant. The student who had instructed <a href="http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/people/lawyer-in-the-news/online-harassment-injunction-first/5050373.fullarticle" target="_blank">Yair Cohen</a> to obtain the injunction was allowed to remain anonymous and has been referred to in the proceedings only as DDF.<br />
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The harassment injunction was obtained after unknown Instagram users threatened to publish false allegations against the student and to expose alleged intimate photographs. Yair Cohen, who is a partner at social media law firm Cohen Davis, sought a banning order before Mr Justice Nichols at the High Court of Justice in London. The judge agreed that a permanent injunction was likely to be obtained at trial both under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 and against the additional release of private information. Even though the defendant was not present at the hearing and was not notified of it, the circumstances were such that it was just, convenient and appropriate that the banning order be granted, having considered the defendant’s human rights against the human rights of the student.<br />
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As the messages included allegations of criminal conduct, to preserve the defendant's human rights, the order allowed him (or her) to not be prevented from repeating the allegations but only by attending a police station in person to make a formal complaint about the student. The judge warned though that making false allegations of criminal conduct can amount to a civil as well as to a criminal wrongdoing. Yair Cohen, a defamation solicitor from London who has so far created a number of legal precedents in online defamation law has confirmed that, to his knowledge, this was the first time in a common law country that a court has permitted proceedings to be served via Instagram.<br />
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The courts have previously allowed service of injunction notices via social media including Facebook and Twitter but this is the first time a full harassment injunction was served via social media. Serving court documents via Instagram requires specific preparations to ensure readability and the preservation of continuity of evidence. This particular court order specified that the injunction should be served both as text and as an image, which means it required creation of images of particularly high resolution that actually fit into the Instagram template. Discovering the identity of anonymous, online users could take time but in most cases is possible to smoke out harassing online users. Defamation solicitors Cohen Davis have so far brought to justice a number of anonymous online users, who posted defamation and harassment on the internet by bringing civil and criminal legal proceedings against them.<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;">Our defamation solicitor says that if you already have sufficient information to take the poster of the defamation to court (for the poster of the defamation you will need the their full name and postal address) then the operator of the defamatory website might escape liability altogether even if they don't remove the offending posts. Unless they act with malice. Our defamation lawyers </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;">actively search for evidence of unlawful corroboration between review website operators and certain reviewers. If we find evidence that operators of review websites act dishonestly or negligently or with malice, our defamation lawyers will pursue both the operators and the posters of the defamation to your benefit.</span></div>
<br />The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5073509 -0.1277582999999822351.1912379 -0.77320529999998222 51.8234639 0.51768870000001777tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-42893806196328468612015-06-23T11:33:00.000-07:002015-06-23T11:46:59.557-07:00Defamation on a website outside the UK <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">If the defamation against you was posted on a website that is located outside the UK and you are unable to obtain the full name and postal address of the poster, then depending on the country where the website is operating from, you will have a choice to use the defamatory website's local laws to facilitate the removal of the defamatory comments or still you will be able to pursue the same goal using UK laws. UK courts might extend their jurisdiction to countries outside of the UK.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">It is possible, says our defamation solicitor to obtain various UK court orders to direct website operators who are based outside of the UK to remove defamation from their website. Similar orders are available to direct those websites to provide you with personal information about the users who posted the defamation against you. So far, the vast majority of website operators who are located outside the UK have been hugely co-operative with our efforts to remove defamation from their websites.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">Our defamation solicitor notes that in some notable instances however they refuse to do so, in which cases we utilised our strong network of local specialists internet lawyers. There is a small number of high profile rough website operators, particularly in the USA whose websites are designed to encourage users to post defamatory comments against whoever they want. A good example of such website is the Ripoffreport which is laden with defamatory and inflammatory posts against innocent people.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">If the defamation against you is posted on one of these rough websites, our strategy is likely to focus on de-indexing (or de-listing) the defamatory web pages from Google, Bing and from other search engines which means the defamatory comments will no longer be visible to around 95% of internet users.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">If the defamation against you was first published after the first of January 2014 and you do not have sufficient identifying information about the poster of the defamation to enable you to take the matter up with them, then website operator will need to get you this information and if they can't then they might need to take the defamatory post down.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">This makes it difficult for posters of defamation on the internet to post defamation whilst concealing their identity. In the majority of cases a responsible UK based website operator will remove the defamatory comments shortly after receiving a properly written Notice of Complaint (Notice of Complaint Regulation 2 and section 5(6) (a) to (c) of the Defamation Act 2013).</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">Upon receipt of the Notice of Complaint, to be able to successfully defend legal action for defamation, the operator must contact the poster within 2 business days and obtain their full name and postal address. If the operator is not able to obtain this information from the poster, they will have a choice of either removing the defamatory comment from their website or become liable for defamation.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">Naturally, most website operators choose to remove the defamatory post altogether rather than have to defend its truthfulness at court.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">If the website operator can provide you with the full name and postal address of the poster of the defamation against you, the operator will not be obliged to remove the defamatory post and will have a defence to legal action for defamation. In this case, our strategy will focus on compelling poster to remove the defamatory post.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="line-height: 1.3em; font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small; line-height: 1.3em;">In the vast majority of cases if approached correctly, website operators who are based in the UK will remove defamatory comments published on their website. Unfortunately some UK website operators still operate under the misconception that they are entitled to continue to publish defamatory articles on their website as long as they are not taking part in the editing of the defamatory material. </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="line-height: 1.3em; font-size: medium;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.3em;">This error is common mostly among those who operate local and national review websites or online discussion forums. Our defamation solicitor tells us that you defamation lawyers need to </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">take extra care to ensure they make it clear to website operators their legal obligations and of the extent of their liability towards an individual or an organisation that is being defamed on their website. Educational letters by your defamation solicitor can save you a lot of money in </span><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">unnecessary</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;"> defamation </span><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">litigation</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">. This in turn should result in faster removal of defamatory content from the internet and with great savings for you.</span></span>The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-803162581099130232015-06-23T10:38:00.002-07:002015-06-23T11:49:22.036-07:00Removing online defamation first published before 2014<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;">
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">If the defamation was first published before the Defamation Act 2013 came into force, our strategy to facilitate the removal of the defamation from the internet will depend on whether or not you already have sufficient information about the whereabouts of the poster and on the location of the offending website.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">Typically, the process of removing the defamation from the offending website will involve direct communication with the website host, the website operator or the website owner. </span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">If the identity or the full contact details of either the website operator or the owner of the website is concealed, we will carry out thorough investigations (on-line as well as off-line) aimed to link the defamatory website to an individual or organisation, with whom we will communicate and if necessary serve upon court orders.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">In some cases, our page removal strategy will include obtaining appropriate court orders to compel those who hold identifying information about the poster, the web host or the owner of the website, to disclose to use all the relevant information that they hold. </span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">Legal proceedings to subpoena information could be relatively straight forward, particularly if we obtain the relevant court orders from the most competent court. For example, if we don't know who is the registered owner of a domain name that hosts the defamation, and the registrar of the domain name is say GoDaddy.com, we will subpoena the required information through a specific Court in Arizona USA because this is where GoDaddy.com is registered and where our USA lawyers are located.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">Once we have obtained the identifying information we will communicate with the poster, the website operator or the website hosts and request that they remove the defamatory post from the offending website. </span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">It is important that a social media lawyer has at least good understanding of the culture, the law and motives of the publishers of the defamatory comments and that those are considered before firing off offensive and often counter-productive solicitor's letters.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">Some website operators who are located outside the UK might be entitled to publish the defamation under their own local laws so issuing them with legal threads might backfire on our clients so experience and sensitivity is hugely important here.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">When defamation was published on a website prior to the Defamation Act 2013, the website operator might not be able to rely on a 'safe harbour' defence which the Act provides. that says that they were merely publishers.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">For this reason, our preferred strategy for removing defamatory comments published prior to 2014 will be to focus our initial communication on the website operator rather than the poster whenever possible. </span><br />
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Social media law is now touching on almost every aspect of business life. So far much of the conversation about social media and business has been about marketing and PR and little has been said about the implications of social media on internal business processes.</div>
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Many organisations are yet to revise their aging policies, outdated employment contracts and archaic privacy guidance to provide employees with clarity about their usage of social media.
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There are 7 simple steps that you can take today to upgrade your organisation’s internal processes and to ensure compliance with social media laws:<br />
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Amend the employee’s handbook to include your organisation’s vision and policies on the use of social media, outlining what employees can and cannot do both at home and at work. Consider for example the fact that in some cases personal tweets or blog posts by an employee, outside working hours, could still affect the reputation of your organisation and bring it into disrepute, or that you as an employer could be sued as a result of personal use of social media by an employee during working hours.<br />
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Update employment contracts to provide you with the right to sanction an employee who brought the organisation into disrepute through social media.<br />
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Create a clear copyright policy that addresses the use of images and videos on your company’s websites and blogs. Many people are not aware of the fact that you cannot just download images from the internet and make commercial use of them. Just because the material is online does not necessarily mean that it does not belong to anyone. Every time you place a copied image on your website, you open yourself up to major legal liabilities, to high legal costs and to embarrassment.</div>
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Decide whether your employees should be allowed to represent your organisation through their personal social media. Consider that social media is made for people not for organisations and that in order to benefit from the marketing value of social media you need the personal engagement of your employees in it. On the other hand, if and when they leave you, your employees will take their personal contacts, friends and connections with them. Is this a risk worth taking? Perhaps, but this will be the subject of another post.
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Make sure that those who are in charge of Human Resources in your organisation are knowledgeable in the area of social media otherwise they will be less likely to identify issues or address them properly.<br />
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Revise your organisation's privacy policies. With social media, employees might inadvertently share confidential information by a click of a button so you need to ensure that your policies give them sufficient guidance as to how to avoid making such mistakes. Compromising privacy could lead to serious legal issues.
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Pay attention to trading standards issues. You must not make promises that the product or service that you offer cannot deliver. Revise the organisation's website content and any “pay per click” or other internet advertising campaigns to ensure that the claims and offers made in the ads are truthful and accurate. Many organisations leave this task at the hands of their internet marketing people, who often are not familiar with or feel indifference about trading standard’s laws. </div>
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Follow these 7 simple steps and upgrade your business to become compliant with social media laws. Click <a href="http://www.internetlawcentre.co.uk/">here</a> to read more advice about social media and businesses.
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The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-92020641425057605902013-01-16T08:12:00.000-08:002013-01-16T08:15:15.854-08:00Why not to click on defamatory linksWhen something has been written about you or your company on the internet and you are a victim of online defamation it is probably your natural instinct to keep clicking on the defamatory link. Do yourself a favor and try not to - the more times the link is clicked, the more popular it will become and the more visible it will be to others.<br />
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Avoid telling friends and family about the website that contains the negative posts as they are likely to check the link out even if you tell them not to. You want to try to keep this issue to yourself as much as you can to reduce the number of clicks the website receives. <br />
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Clicking on the link that contains the defamatory material unfortunately makes it more powerful. Search engines give priority to popular links. So every click ... read more on why not to click on defamatory links at the <a href="http://www.internetlawcentre.co.uk/defamation-on-search-results">Internet Law Centre</a>.<br />
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It is never easy to decide what steps to take when you have discovered that you are being defamed online. You search the web and find various PR, SEO and reputation management specialists who claim that they can help but which do you choose?
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It is vital that you remain focused and act appropriately when dealing with internet defamation. You do not want to damage your reputation further nor do you want to draw more attention to the original defamation.
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Here I have put together 5 easy and effective steps to help you in response to your online defamation issue:
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1) Be proactive. Consider using blogs to try and push the defamatory web pages out of public view. You do not have to be a writing expert to begin writing about yourself or your company. Google enables people to set up free blogs and these can be quite effective in communicating your message and enhancing your online reputation. If you... read more on online defamation and the other steps on our new <a href="http://www.socialmediasolicitor.com/2013/01/online-defamation-5-steps-you-should.html">social media solicitor</a> blog.The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-14247542546192076292013-01-10T04:18:00.002-08:002013-01-11T06:56:51.912-08:00I am a victim of online defamation - do I need an injunction?<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is the question we are regularly asked at the Internet Law Centre and
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Many victims of online defamation assume that they need an injunction to facilitate the removal of the defamatory web pages that damage their reputation. Although an injunction is one solution
for your issue, obtaining one is costly.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Often, web pages containing defamatory material
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">However, it is likely that search engine providers such as Google and Bing will ask
for a court order before they consider removing a defamatory web page unless
we can specifically state that the web page is published in breach of their own terms and conditions
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span>In <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">99% of cases that we recently came accross, Google had removed defamatory web pages after
receiving a claim form and this normally meets the objectives of our clients. This
means that there might not be a need to pursue the claim further and that an injunction is no longer needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Read more tips on how to deal with online defamation at the <a href="http://www.internetlawcentre.co.uk/web-pages-removal">Internet Law Centre</a>.</span><br />
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<br />The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5073346 -0.1276831000000129351.1912111 -0.77313010000001292 51.8234581 0.51776389999998707tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-11812070173775579922012-12-13T08:57:00.002-08:002012-12-14T07:46:26.678-08:00Crackdown on trolling<span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">New laws could have a “chilling effect” on internet users and their freedom of expression
online.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Joint Committee on Human
Rights warned that website operators may have to delete statements that may not
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protect sites such as Facebook and Twitter from claims made against them when
defamatory material is published, as well as making it easier to identify those
who have wrote the defamatory posts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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contact with both parties to resolve the matter or remove the defamatory material when they cannot
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solely hosting the content, there could be great consequences for those who
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post is regarded defamatory if it has caused or is likely to cause serious
harm to the reputation of an individual or a company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However no claims for damages will be awarded
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The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-18387802394759440832012-12-12T03:17:00.000-08:002013-01-24T11:33:43.730-08:00Defamation on Amazon<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Are you a customer with Amazon? If you are then this article may be of interest to you…
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<a href="http://www.socialmediasolicitor.com/2013/01/is-amazon-compassionate-organisation.html"><img alt="Defamation on amazon review" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQHdyYVz7OCONnsIs_wt-JtG6wpqjJoBj49ujL4keRjfikKlLuYQxkz_YGVQDt4-RZn_WbtW3dOj7SZX8yC9y_ULte7Ubok4nNtyZTh3TCP1KyIasDc5-35TixKlqK1tjxbsg7zqHze6U/s200/woman_secret.png" title="Defamation on amazon review" width="131" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A number of instances have come to our attention recently where individuals who left a review following a purchase from Amazon market place, ended up being bullied, harassed and trolled by what appeared to be other vendors. Read full blog post on <a href="http://www.socialmediasolicitor.com/2013/01/is-amazon-compassionate-organisation.html">Social Media Lawyer</a> blog.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-61156606321679074132012-12-10T06:53:00.000-08:002012-12-14T02:32:17.499-08:00Is an injunction always the best way to respond to online reputation attacks? <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The
answer would depend on who you are up against as well as what exactly motivates
your enemies to tarnish your reputation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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normally be most appropriate against companies as well as individuals who are
generally speaking, law abiding people even if their posts are motivated by a
sense of injustice. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A mere threat of an injunction which is coupled
with reiteration of the costs that are involved in defending it, is normally
sufficient to act as a deterrent and to bring a defamatory case to its
successful end. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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with unscrupulous individuals who consider themselves as having nothing to
lose, who are willing to disobey Court orders or who are outside the realm of
the jurisdiction of the High Court. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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defamatory remarks by those sorts of people could be a complete waste of money
and may not necessarily get you any closer to achieving your objectives. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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carefully and if an injunction is to be sought, it is better sought against the
companies which are behind the websites where the libellous remarks are
published because they are more likely to respond positively to a removal
request. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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or even against the Internet Service Provider could produce very good results
because these organisations have nothing to gain from litigating with you, but
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The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-71017794301737073962012-12-07T03:42:00.001-08:002014-05-12T01:23:15.897-07:00Have you ever had a bad review placed on the internet about your company?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text2;">Bad reviews are
not necessarily a result of bad service. In fact, they are often produced by
the very same customer that you tried to appease so much and sometimes,
unbeknown to you, bad reviews are written and then posted by your competitors.<br />
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Bad internet reviews are becoming a big problem for all businesses almost
without exception. The ease by which disgruntled clients,customers or nasty
competitors can cause serious damage to a businesses is scary. No one seems to
be immune; lawyers, accountants, debt collectors, IT experts, and the
list goes on. You cannot completely stop bad internet reviews but you can
certainly create a reputation management strategy which will help you
effectively deal with bad reviews. <br />
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Online reviews can be regarded as defamation of character whenever one or more
parts of a review are factually inaccurate or is misleading. By not telling the
whole story, the author of a review may create an impression which is far from
being a reflection of the true position and this could be considered as
defamation too. </span><br />
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many of those who write reviews on the internet do not realise this, that a
'one sided' internet review could actually be defamatory even if no lies are
included. So if you feel that a review is defamatory for reasons of lack of
factual accuracy, you might prefer to facilitate the removal of such review
rather than attempt to put the facts right by responding to it. </span></div>
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The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0United Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.1996745 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-55786238467648334512012-12-06T08:00:00.001-08:002012-12-06T08:11:40.093-08:00Maintaining Domain Ownership<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">This is a short post to remind you of the importance of maintaining a domain portfolio for you
and for your business.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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"www.myname.com", www.myname.co.uk and "www.myname.net are particularly
important.</span></span></div>
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If you do not yet own these domains yourself, there is a real chance that
somebody else will, for either a legitimate reason or as a commodity which they
will be hoping to sell on (to you perhaps) for large profits. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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sorts of domains have been used to direct visitors to competing and even fraudulent
websites.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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appropriate domain names, even if not used straight away to create websites or
blogs, could become very useful as a tool to defeat internet defamation and as
a method of enhancing the quality of your brand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-46244754367640541042012-12-04T07:41:00.003-08:002013-02-22T08:08:56.365-08:00Should you respond to negative reviews?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #215968; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #215968; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you are in the unfortunate position where you have come across
something bad written about you on internet blogs or forums your initial reaction
may be to respond back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, do
consider this option carefully as a response from you can trigger another great
deal of problems.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #215968; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #215968; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It is not always advised to respond to the <strong>negativity</strong> but if you do
then be careful what you say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always be
polite and never say anything that can get you in trouble in the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are responding on behalf of a company
then you need to remember that what you say will greatly reflect the
company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you respond in anger and say
things you may regret, your company will suffer as well as you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215968; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #215968; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Responding to these forums could in turn <strong>attract</strong> search engine
results to the bad review meaning the bad review will increase internet traffic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will result in more visitors reading the
bad reviews.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Read tips on how to deal with internet defamation at </strong></span><a href="http://www.internetlawcentre.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The Internet Law Centre</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>.</strong></span>The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-26030812372457306772012-12-03T07:31:00.003-08:002013-09-27T09:44:01.668-07:00Websites never die<span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Some 15
years ago a young model in her early twenties had photographs of
hers being placed on a pornographic website by her ex-boyfriend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Subsequently the boyfriend agreed to remove
all her images and the matter seemed to have been forgotten by all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The young
lady is now in her thirties, a businesswoman and a mother to 3 children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A few
months ago, almost out of nowhere, 3 of the erotic photographs suddenly
reappeared on the internet. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Her ex-boyfriend
denied anything to do with this and it took a while to trace these pictures
back to the original website which like tens of millions of other websites had
been archived on the world’s largest internet archiving project, <a href="http://archive.org/web/web.php" target="_blank">The WayBack Machine</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Someone must
have downloaded these old pictures from the archive and reposted them on the
internet. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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is that a website, a picture or video might remain on the internet possibly for
ever more and it is always advisable to check <a href="http://archive.org/web/web.php" target="_blank">The WayBack Machine</a> for any
backup copies of unwanted websites, images and videos.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Learn as much as you can about internet law. At the <a href="http://www.internetlawcentre.co.uk/">Internet Law Centre.</a></span></span></span></div>
The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0United Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.202562 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-4842855552303002842012-12-03T03:27:00.002-08:002012-12-12T09:18:23.651-08:00Promoting your business<span style="color: #76923c; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The internet is a fantastic way to promote your
business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are in the 21<sup>st</sup>
century and almost everything we do now is based online so it is important that
the marketing is done correctly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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have proved to be very beneficial when it comes to promoting a business. It is
a good idea to update people daily about new business ideas, interesting news
and blogs to keep them interested in your business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These websites also allow the opportunity for
feedback so is a good way of discovering ways to improve the business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #76923c; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Blogs are excellent in increasing the popularity of
a business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Links can be added which can
also be linked to your website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more
links and people you have clicking on your online material, the more popular
your sites will appear on search engines such as Google.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Google notices which websites are proving
more favourable and will automatically move them to a higher position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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adding more links and creating more blog posts as this will rapidly increase
the popularity of your company.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #76923c; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Visit the <a href="http://www.internetlawcentre.co.uk/">Internet Law Centre</a> for more tips!</span></span></div>
The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-43405786491177286532012-11-30T07:38:00.001-08:002013-02-01T06:54:38.774-08:00Be careful what you share<span style="color: #00b0f0;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It goes without saying to be
careful what you share over the internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Never give personal details away even if you believe you can trust that
person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A minority of people over the
internet will try to deceive you and make you feel as if you can trust
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But keep your wits about you.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #00b0f0;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I am not saying that no one can
be trusted over the internet but be especially cautious of those you do not
know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They may try to manipulate you
into thinking you can trust them and this is when they get what they want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are in a vulnerable position and are more
likely to disclose personal information, pictures etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #00b0f0;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This information can then be
used against you and in many cases is often used as a form of blackmail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many people have had their reputation
sabotaged due to one little mistake made over the internet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #00b0f0;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Always make sure you know who
you are sharing with and never give any information to anyone you are unsure of
or don’t know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-55916458756621458202012-11-30T03:14:00.000-08:002012-12-03T02:03:54.577-08:00What to do if you are being defamed over the internet<br />
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<span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">If you are being defamed over the internet and your
reputation is at risk, you want to get this resolved as quickly as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">Don’t click on the link of the URL that contains the
defamatory material as Google begins to assume that it is a popular site and
will position it towards the top of the search results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also tell family and friends not to do so.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">It is important that you receive the relevant advice in
relation to your problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Internet
Law Centre comprises specialist knowledge and experience to help you through
these defamation attacks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have the
skills to remove derogatory web pages. Visit the <a href="http://www.internetlawcentre.co.uk/">internet law centre</a> today.</span></span></span><br />
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The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-16921478340443804422012-11-30T01:59:00.000-08:002013-02-01T06:57:19.765-08:00The phenomenon of trolls<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Trolling has increasingly become a
notorious problem for online users.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Predominantly celebrities are being targeted on social media sites such
as facebook and twitter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Individuals who
are not in the public eye are also finding themselves victims of these vicious
online attacks. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In serious cases people have had
their privacy completely breached by trolls when their personal information
such as names and addresses have been disclosed online as well as photographs of
themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trolls will also verbally
abuse their victims and go to any extent to destroy their reputation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There have been cases recently where
trolls are being sent to prison for their online behaviour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This form of cyber bullying and defamation is
completely unacceptable and needs to be monitored more extensively.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There may soon be changes in the law
to amend the Defamation Act to ensure that there is a balance between the right
to freedom of expression and the protection of reputation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will hopefully enforce stricter rules on
trolling and potentially have more serious consequences for people's actions.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-12997521751980123422012-11-16T08:02:00.000-08:002012-12-03T02:04:54.556-08:00How to avoid defamation by employees and former business partners<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It is very common that in many cases it is the former employees
and business partners who are responsible for the defamatory content you find
written about your business on the internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are often motivated by their sense of injustice and anguish towards
the company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is normally a result
for them losing their job.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">During their employment with your company, they may have had
access to confidential information and in some cases
wrongdoings by you the employer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They may
also be able to obtain large amounts of information about you which they can
use to their advantage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Although some of these cases are inevitable there are some
ways in which Companies can avoid defamation by employees and former business
partners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To read these useful points
read on at the </span><a href="http://www.internetlawcentre.co.uk/internet-defamation/13-9-steps-to-avoid-defamation-by-employees-and-former-business-partners"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Internet Law Centre</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.</span></div>
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The Internet Law Centrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640542782480529453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731893165522502498.post-23787177339705077652012-11-16T07:11:00.002-08:002013-02-01T07:00:38.532-08:00Online Reputation Attack<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It may be that the reputation of your business
is being damaged without you knowing about it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Just because you search for your business on Google doesn’t mean
that others will find the same results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In fact, search results can vary greatly due to carrying out the search from a different
geographical location. People may also use a different search engine from Google
such as Bing or Yahoo which will prompt different results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There is also the possibility of discussions on social
network sites or review sites about your business that you may not have been
aware of and did not appear when you conducted the search.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Businesses will highly benefit from conducting thorough
professional searches over the internet which can reveal serious reputation issues
that you would not necessarily be aware of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
The sooner you discover what is being written about you the better!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Read more on the benefits to your business at the </span><a href="http://www.internetlawcentre.co.uk/internet-defamation/21-online-reputations-attacked-from-under-the-radar"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Internet Law Centre</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.</span></div>
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