London startup blog The Kernel could face closure from enforcement of a high court order for £16,853 against its parent company Sentinel Media, whose sole director Milo Yiannopoulos has been embroiled in rows for months with former contributors who have gone unpaid. Non-payment of the debt could mean the forced winding-up by a court-ordered administrator of Sentinel Media, whose only obvious assets are its web domain, kernelmag.com, and the income from its mailing list. The mailing list itself is not an asset unless it can be shown to have been properly collected under the Data Protection Act. Yiannopoulos is also being investigated by the criminal investigations team of the Information Commissioner’s Office for failing to register Sentinel Media under the Data Protection Act – despite running a paid-for mailing list since the site went live in December 2011. Failing to register where required would be a criminal offence with a maximum fine of £5,000, for which the directors of a company are personally liable. The £16,853 order is being enforced on behalf of Jason Hesse, who was The Kernel’s editor for several months last year before leaving in May. He won an unopposed claim for unpaid wages and unfair dismissal… Read full this story
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