Saturday 25 April 2015

James Berry – Be careful what yo publish online

In this increasingly tech-savvy market place, many firms, in seeking to promote their business, allow customers and clients to post comments to their website or social media sites. Caution must be exercised in those circumstances to ensure that any such comments are carefully monitored –you, as the owner of the platform that allows those comments to be published, may be held liable if those comments are against the law Federal Law No. 5 of 2012 on Combating Cyber Crimes, (“the Law”) deals with a variety of issues relating to information published on-line.