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Today's Headlines
Fri, Jul, 30 2010
Virgin Media broke advertising regulations when it sent an email promoting deals and offers to a customer who had opted out of marketing communications, the advertising regulator has said. The company had claimed the message was a service update.
Fri, Jul, 30 2010
An importer of 'mod chips' that allowed people to play pirated Nintendo DS video games infringed copyright and broke laws forbidding the circumvention of copy-protection technology, the High Court has said.
Fri, Jul, 30 2010
The US House of Representatives has passed a law which will render libel rulings from the English courts unenforceable there. The bill has already been passed by the Senate and will go to US President Barack Obama to be signed into law.
Fri, Jul, 30 2010
Google was wrong to gather data about and from wireless networks when its cars documented the UK's streets for its Street View service but it is "unlikely" that the company gathered much personal data, the UK privacy watchdog has said.
Thu, Jul, 29 2010
The Government will scrap the law allowing organisations to force workers to retire at 65 but companies will find it easier than ever to run their own compulsory retirement schemes in the wake of a Court of Appeal ruling yesterday, an expert has said.
Thu, Jul, 29 2010
The Scottish Government has asked the public and business to consider how far freedom of information (FOI) laws should be extended.
Wed, Jul, 28 2010
The High Court has ordered a chef to pay £10,000 in libel damages for a Facebook posting in which he called a former friend a homosexual paedophile. Law student Raymond Bryce said he was neither.
Wed, Jul, 28 2010
The European Commission is investigating computing giant IBM over allegations that it has broken competition law by trying to hamper the ability of other companies to compete with it in the market for mainframe computers.
Wed, Jul, 28 2010
Consumers can leave their broadband providers with no penalty if internet access speeds are too slow, under new plans drawn up by telecoms regulator Ofcom.
Tue, Jul, 27 2010
Parliamentary Ombudsman Ann Abraham has written to every MP to say that Sir John Chadwick's proposals for compensating Equitable Life policyholders are "an unsafe and unsound basis on which to proceed."
