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Global Law Summit website hacked at start of discussion on internet privacy

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By Alex Aldridge on

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Yesterday afternoon top defamation judge Sir Michael Tugendhat joined Simmons & Simmons senior partner Colin Passmore and theatre director Josie Rourke at the Global Law Summit for a high-level discussion on “the nature of privacy and cutting edge technology”.

Meanwhile, someone was hacking the Global Law Summit’s website …

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Still, at least the hacking holding page was an improvement on the advert for colon cleansing which appeared when the Global Law Summit’s website was hacked earlier this month.

Hat tip to @K_Etherington.

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