The Government agency in charge of immigration spent £30,000 on a new logo which is nearly identical to the old one.
Filed under: Government, Immigration, Law & Order, Madness, Taxpayers | Tagged: Border and Immigration Agency, Home Office, Immigration, Phil Woolas, UK Border Agency | 1 Comment »
Companies have to provide a means of contact on their websites in addition to their postal and email addresses, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. A telephone number, or a contact form that is answered within 60 minutes, were deemed acceptable.
Filed under: Abusing the System, E-commerce, Internet, The WEB | Tagged: European Court of Justice, Office of Fair Trading, Trading Standards | Leave a Comment »
Don’t mess with the DVLA, or bad things might happen to your data.
Filed under: Data Protection, Data Theft, Identity Theft, Rights | Tagged: Data Protection, Data Theft, DVLA, Moorcroft Debt Recovery, Personal Data | Leave a Comment »
Depositors looking for a safe haven for their money have poured cash into accounts at Spanish-owned Abbey, the bank said today.
Filed under: Economy | Tagged: Abbey, Bank, HBOS, Northern Rock, Santander, TSB | Leave a Comment »
Orange, the UK’s sixth largest broadband provider, is not going to use Phorm’s data-snooping technology.
Filed under: Big Brother, Data Theft, E-commerce, Internet, Rights, The WEB | Tagged: BT, ISPs, Orange, Phorm, Webwise | Leave a Comment »
Ten thousand complaints and rising. Questions in the House from outraged MPs. Gordon Brown calls it “inappropriate and unacceptable”. BBC radio boss Tim Davie apologises unreservedly and uses the “unacceptable” word too. Ofcom and the BBC Trust circle menacingly. And the woman at the centre of it all, Georgina Baillie, reportedly tells the Sun she [...]
Filed under: Scandal | Tagged: BBC, Jonathon Ross, Newsbeat, Ofcom, Rod McKenzie, Russell Brand | 1 Comment »
Under-fire BBC presenter Jonathan Ross is to be handed £16,000 a day of your money for doing nothing.
Filed under: Stupid, Taxpayers | Tagged: BBC, Jonathon Ross, Russell Brand | Leave a Comment »
Alistair Darling called on oil companies to slash fuel prices this morning after Royal Dutch Shell joined the profits bonanza from record prices by unveiling a £6.6 billion profit.
Filed under: Economy, Energy, Government, Motorists | Tagged: Alistair Darling, BP, Exxon Mobil, Oil Companies, Shell | Leave a Comment »
Goldman Sachs is on course to pay its top City bankers multimillion-pound bonuses – despite asking the U.S. government for an emergency bail-out.
Filed under: Economy, Government, Taxpayers | Tagged: Goldman Sachs, Wall Street | Leave a Comment »
Prisoners have been wrongly paid £500,000 to cover rent and food while taking university courses from jail.
Filed under: Education, Government, Taxpayers | Tagged: Prisoners, Taxpayers, Universities | Leave a Comment »
