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31 Mar 2010
The UK's press regulator has ruled against a mainstream publisher's blog for the first time. It said that Spectator contributor Rod Liddle's claims about crime and black people failed the accuracy requirement of the regulator's Code of Practice.
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31 Mar 2010
Google, Microsoft, eBay, telecoms companies and civil liberties groups in the US have called on the US government to update electronic privacy laws to take account of the internet and protect citizens from state snooping.
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29 Mar 2010
One in four underage children have profiles on social networking sites, according to research by media regulator Ofcom. The survey found that 25% of eight to 12-year-olds surveyed have a social networking profile.
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29 Mar 2010
A venture capital company that breached the confidentiality of businessmen who came to it with a proposition should only have to pay damages as compensation and not a share of their profits from the deal, the High Court has ruled.
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29 Mar 2010
A publisher should not be responsible for a libel created by the out-of-context publication of material by a search engine, the High Court has ruled.
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24 Mar 2010
The Government has outlined its plans for a reform of libel law, but said that it will not be possible to pass the proposed new law before this year's general election.
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23 Mar 2010
Data protection laws should change to force people creating new technologies to design privacy features into them, the EU's data protection advisor has said.
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23 Mar 2010
Google has stopped censoring its internet search results in China and has moved the service to Hong Kong. Reports from the Chinese mainland suggest that results for controversial searches are being blocked by the Chinese government.
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18 Mar 2010
Marketers must not collect personal data from children under 12 years' old without consent from a parent or guardian, according to new advertising rules. Two new Codes of Practice will come into force in September.
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18 Mar 2010
Europe's privacy watchdogs have outlined exactly what the meanings are of the two terms on which the whole EU Data Protection Directive hangs. It said that organisations need more guidance now because of the complexity of modern business.
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