Bibliografia. Feto. How online guest books changed hotels. 28 September 2010Last updated at 11:27 By Andrew McFarlane BBC News Magazine Millions of travellers describe through online reviews the sort of welcome they receive at a hotel Travel website TripAdvisor is facing legal action from up to 700 hotel and guesthouse owners who complain they are victims of unfair reviews.
So how much do these peer review sites matter? Once, the power to make or break a hotel's reputation was the preserve of guide book editors and newspaper travel writers. But since TripAdvisor launched in 2000, 35 million people have put fingertips to keyboard to offer their view of accommodation the world over. Governments 'not ready' for new European privacy law. 9 March 2011Last updated at 07:55 Cookies are used by websites to save user preferences between visits.
European rules aimed at giving consumers more control over how their web browsing is tracked will not be enforced come May, experts have said. No European government has yet drawn up the guidelines for how the ePrivacy directive will be enforced. GOP pushing for ISPs to record user data. The House Republicans' first major technology initiative is about to be unveiled: a push to force Internet companies to keep track of what their users are doing.
A House panel chaired by Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin is scheduled to hold a hearing tomorrow morning to discuss forcing Internet providers, and perhaps Web companies as well, to store records of their users' activities for later review by police.