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30 Apr 2012
Parties representing a majority of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) do not support the approval of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) after liberals added their opposition to the controversial treaty, an MEP has said.
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30 Apr 2012
The UK's data protection watchdog is to pool the complaints it receives from consumers about the data protection practices of individual businesses in order to increase the level of regulator "action" it takes in the private sector, the Information Commissioner...
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27 Apr 2012
More than 30 websites domains used by criminals to sell stolen credit and debit card and online bank account information have been shut down following an international collaboration by law enforcement bodies.
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27 Apr 2012
The UK's data protection watchdog has defended its policy of issuing fines after newly released figures suggested private sector organisations are issued with disproportionately fewer fines than local Government ones.
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27 Apr 2012
Mobile network O2 has launched a new mobile 'wallet' service that will enable customers to transfer money to friends, pay for goods and services and take advantage of discount offers.
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26 Apr 2012
UPDATED: A hold-up to the introduction and operation of a new anti-piracy code can be blamed on the "delaying tactics" of two internet service providers (ISPs), a body representing rights holder groups has said.
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25 Apr 2012
Companies that sell 'used' licences for other firms' copyrighted computer programs that are downloadable from the internet can legitimately do so providing the terms of the rights holders' licence does not put a bar on reproduction without their consent,...
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24 Apr 2012
The Information Commissioner's Office is to investigate an apparent breach of data protection laws after personal information belonging to runners of the London Marathon was accidentally published on the organisers' website.
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24 Apr 2012
Sky News' admission that it hacked into the emails of a man who faked his own death is to be investigated by the UK's broadcast regulator.
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24 Apr 2012
A German court has ordered YouTube to pro-actively flag up infringing content to rights holders using existing technology it operates if it has previously been notified that an unlawful copy of the content has been uploaded to the site by users.
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