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21 Dec 2012
Software companies will be permitted to use "technological protection measures" (TPM) to prevent consumers making copies of their works for private use under planned changes to copyright law, the Government has said.
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21 Dec 2012
A university in Liverpool did not have to disclose emails sent from a lecturer's university email account concerning the lecturer's work at a climate change policy think tank because the information could not be said to be 'held' by the institution, an...
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21 Dec 2012
The Government and local authorities will be able to invest in broadband infrastructure to significantly enhance the speed of services available in areas where there is existing private sector presence under exceptional circumstances, the European Commission...
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21 Dec 2012
Singapore's new Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) will come into force on 2 January, the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) in Singapore has announced. It has named the makeup of the two supervisory bodies to oversee and advise on the...
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21 Dec 2012
Organisations that wish to update their IT systems and transform their business need to be careful not to be overly prescriptive with suppliers and overlook other important considerations, an expert in resolving IT disputes has said.
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20 Dec 2012
Members of the public faced with the prospect of bringing a claim for defamation or breach of privacy against a large media organisation will in the future be protected against having to pay the other side's costs if the case is lost, the Government...
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20 Dec 2012
Businesses will be able to exchange data with companies and subsidiaries in New Zealand more easily than before because the European Commission has certified that its data protection laws are compatible with those in the European Union.
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20 Dec 2012
Companies with some workers in Northern Ireland could run into problems if they need to make large-scale redundancies once changes to consultation requirements come into force elsewhere in the United Kingdom, an employment law expert has warned.
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19 Dec 2012
EU privacy regulators in France and Luxembourg are leading an investigation into changes Microsoft made to its user terms and conditions earlier this year, the UK's data protection watchdog has said.
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19 Dec 2012
Compliance and data protection officers at EU institutions may be exposed to conflicts of interest, the data protection watchdog for those institutions has warned.
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