A silver lining for cloud storage

Andrea Coscelli, CMA Acting Chief Executive, on securing fairer contracts for cloud storage users.
Andrea Coscelli, CMA Acting Chief Executive, on securing fairer contracts for cloud storage users.
Everyone needs a lawyer at some point in their life, and it’s usually for something fairly stressful – like sorting out a will, buying a house or if you run into trouble at work.
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30 June 2016 marked the end of the CMA’s presidency of the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN), a group of consumer protection authorities from nearly 60 countries.
In 2011 I directed an investigation by one of our predecessor bodies, the Competition Commission, which found that competition between bus operators can bring real benefits to the travelling public.
Imagine you store all your photos, music and personal documents in the cloud and you pay for a 50GB storage account.
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