The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) is to investigate eBay after Privacy International lodged an official complaint about the company’s data retention practices.
Privacy International (PI) alleges that the auction site is deliberately making it difficult for people to delete their accounts, with the aim of bolstering customer numbers.
Under the 1998 Data Protection Act (DPA), firms are […]
A rare 1943 Rolex 3525 Oyster Chronograph watch purchased by Prisoner of War C.J. Nutting, a Corporal in the Royal Corps of Signals in the British Army during the Second World War, will be sold at Bonhams & Goodman in Australia on 11 September 2006. This follows the auction house’s world record-breaking sale of a […]
Elvis Presley owned a number of Cadillacs, but they rarely come up for sale in the UK. However, a 1960 Coupe DeVille owned by the superstar singer is going under the hammer at the H&H auction in Buxton, Derbyshire, on September 12th/13th. The pillarless coupe, DFO 301, is white with a salmon pink roof and […]
MORE than 42,000 breeding ewes have been entered in the Welsh Mule Sheep Breeders Association sales from September 6 to 13 - an increase of nearly 3,000 compared with 2005.
The Welshpool sale will take place on September 6 and 7. While association members will be at the Royal Welsh Showground at Builth Wells on September […]
A man who went to pay for a car he had bought on eBay was robbed at gunpoint by the person selling the car, according to reports.
23-year-old Shahzad Ali Shah from Crawley, West Sussex, was told by the seller of a Mercedes Benz Kompressor C180 that a cash purchase would be neccessary, the Daily Mirror […]
Pictures of some of the world’s best loved fairytales will go under the hammer at a Cambridge auction house.
The Fine Art Sale at Cheffins includes several works by Edward Ardizzone, inspired by master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen.
Classics like The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling and The Snow Queen are brought to […]
Private equity group Permira has acquired the former Unilever brands Birds Eye and Iglo, closing the auction with a £1bn bid.
Permira outbid CapVest, a rival private equity firm that owns FoodVest, the holding company behind Findus frozen foods in Norway, Sweden and France, as well as the UK’s Young’s Bluecrest Seafood.
Unilever took the decision to […]