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29 Jan 2010
Canada's Privacy Commissioner has launched an investigation into changes Facebook made to its privacy policy. The changes were made in response to an investigation the Privacy Commissioner carried out last year.
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29 Jan 2010
The European Commission is planning to beef up the Data Protection Directive, strengthening the enforcement of the EU law and including introducing new demands that technologies and processes include 'privacy by design'.
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29 Jan 2010
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has begun its consultation process on proposed codes of practice relating to new planned equality legislation.
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28 Jan 2010
Standards in financial advertising are improving, according to an independent review commissioned by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). But the regulator does not want firms to get complacent.
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28 Jan 2010
The Government will create a public sector computing 'cloud' where public bodies will be able to choose from and host applications. It hopes that its new ICT strategy will be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than the existing setup.
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28 Jan 2010
IT companies will not have to conduct a total overhaul of their sales processes in the aftermath of a long-awaited court ruling this week, a technology law expert has said. The ruling focused on the dishonesty of one employee, not a whole company.
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27 Jan 2010
The Court of Appeal has asked Europe's highest court to rule on whether UK authorities can seize counterfeit goods passing through the UK and allow brand owners to take legal action against the companies behind the fakes.
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27 Jan 2010
A hotels group has gained control of over 1,500 domain names, using a dispute resolution process to take control of them from one man in Germany who controls over 70,000 domain names.
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27 Jan 2010
A search engine company that has won plaudits for its efforts to protect users' privacy is launching a proxy-surfing service on Thursday by which users can look at web pages without the knowledge of the page owner.
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26 Jan 2010
Hewlett-Packard has vowed to appeal a ruling announced today by England's Technology and Construction Court that is expected to cost it more than £200 million. The case is one of the longest-running and most expensive disputes in the technology...
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