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1) Green councillor Jason Kitcat successfully appealed a local authority decision to suspend him from Brighton & Hove City Council, after he uploaded clips of council meetings onto YouTube (taken from the council’s own public livestream). Kitcat’s tribunal notes can be found here. A report in local paper, the Argus, can be found here.
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Interestingly, when asked why videoing was not allowed, they claimed ‘Data Protection’, the catch-all excuse for any public body that doesn’t want to publish, or open up, something. Of course, this is nonsense in the context of a public meeting, and where all those being filmed were public figures who were carrying out a civic responsibility.
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Yahoo says it is combining its powerful geo-informatics tools and content platforms so consumers can "save cash while [they] support local businesses." For marketers, this is just another of many indications that it's increasingly important to create locally targeted content and ad campaigns that can catch clicks and local commerce – for Yahoo and other major sites.
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