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OFT targets Twitter brand champions
Celebrity endorsements in line for major overhaul 10 January 2011 15:43 GMT TweetUndeclared endorsement based tweets could soon be a thing of the past if the Office of Fair Trading gets its way.
The government's consumer watchdog has begun a crackdown after it discovered a PR firm, Handpicked Media, was paying well-known...
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Software licences branded unfair
National Consumer Council urges clampdown 21 February 2008 16:26 GMT TweetSome of the world's biggest software developers have been slammed in a new report by the National Consumer Council (NCC).
It has called for a clampdown on software companies that it says mislead computer users into signing away legal rights,... -
Office of Fair Trading spams kids
But only to teach them a lesson! 19 February 2008 12:01 GMT TweetThe Office of Fair Trading launched a new scheme to warn the UK's youth about the dangers of replying to spam text messages.
The organisation sent thousands of mock SMS spam messages to people aged between 18 and 24 as part of Scams Awareness...