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31 Aug 2009
Facebook will make changes to its privacy policies and practices in a move it says will help users to understand why it collects personal information and to control its use. The changes are the result of an investigation by Canada's privacy watchdog....
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31 Aug 2009
Italian newspapers have complained to competition regulators that Google's News service denies them their fair share of online advertising revenue, according to reports. Google has said that dissenting publishers can decline to use the system.
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28 Aug 2009
A music trade body has kept secret the results of asking 1,800 young people how much they would pay for a limitless download service. UK Music chief executive Feargal Sharkey told OUT-LAW Radio the information was commercially sensitive.
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27 Aug 2009
A California court has said it needs more evidence before it can decide whether coffee labels printed over the course of years counted as re-publishing or if it counts as a 'single publication'.
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27 Aug 2009
ICANN is reviewing whether or not people have enough opportunity to reclaim domain names that they have allowed to expire. A committee of the domain name administration body has said that current rules do not work.
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26 Aug 2009
Inept employees are more dangerous than malicious insiders when it comes to IT security risks, according to an information security company. RSA says that research conducted for it shows that bungling is more damaging than sabotage.
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26 Aug 2009
All new company directors' home addresses will be hidden from 1st October this year. Directors will also be able to stop Companies House from revealing addresses even to credit agencies and public bodies.
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26 Aug 2009
A casino games gambling company has been told it should have identified itself on adverts it ran criticising betting shop gambling terminals. The company, Prime Table Games, had claimed that it would not benefit commercially from the campaign.
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26 Aug 2009
OPINION: When France's Schneider Electric faced a patent battle in a Chinese court recently it had reason to feel confident. It thought it had a solid prior art case for invalidating the patent being used against it by Chinese firm Chint, and foreign...
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26 Aug 2009
More people could resign and claim compensation for unfair dismissal if their company is taken over by another firm whose offices are further away following an Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) ruling, an employment law expert has said.
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