London https://news.hitb.org/ en Olympics Can't Hire Enough Actual Security, But Fully Staffed With 'Brand Police' https://news.hitb.org/content/olympics-cant-hire-enough-actual-security-fully-staffed-brand-police <article data-history-node-id="44989" role="article" class="node article teaser clearfix UTF-8"> <header> <h2 class="title text-center"><a href="/content/olympics-cant-hire-enough-actual-security-fully-staffed-brand-police" rel="bookmark"><span>Olympics Can&#039;t Hire Enough Actual Security, But Fully Staffed With &#039;Brand Police&#039;</span> </a></h2> <div class="meta submit clearfix"> <div class="date text-right"> <span class="lowercase">posted on</span>July 17, 2012 </div> <div class="author"> <span class="lowercase">by</span> <span><span>l33tdawg</span></span> </div> </div> </header> <div class="image-default"> <div> <a href="/content/olympics-cant-hire-enough-actual-security-fully-staffed-brand-police" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/field/image/Olympic15July.jpg?itok=7LJkujGj" width="220" height="165" alt="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article7945956.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/Olympic15July.jpg" title="Credit: The Independent (UK)" /> </a> </div> <div class="image-credit"> <strong>Credit:</strong> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article7945956.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/Olympic15July.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article7945956.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/Olympic15July.jpg</a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div><p>We've talked about how the Olympics are so focused on hiding any non-sponsor brand that they had officials in Beijing during the last Olympics tape over bathroom fixtures from non-sponsoring companies. And it was clear that this same sort of activity was set to continue this time around in London, including a specific law against "ambush marketing."</p></div> </div> <div class="meta link clearfix"> <div class="comment"> <span class="lowercase">no</span>comment </div> <div class="share text-center show-for-medium"> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://news.hitb.org/content/olympics-cant-hire-enough-actual-security-fully-staffed-brand-police" data-a2a-title="Olympics Can&#039;t Hire Enough Actual Security, But Fully Staffed With &#039;Brand Police&#039;"><a class="a2a_button_facebook"><span class="fa fa-facebook"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter"><span class="fa fa-twitter"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_linkedin"><span class="fa fa-linkedin"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_email"><span class="fa fa-envelope"></span></a></span> </div> <div class="read-more"><a href="/content/olympics-cant-hire-enough-actual-security-fully-staffed-brand-police"><span class="lowercase">&#8594;</span>READ MORE</a></div> </div> </article> Tue, 17 Jul 2012 01:53:49 +0000 l33tdawg 44989 at https://news.hitb.org