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25 Apr 2013
The House of Lords has approved the final wording of the new Defamation Bill following the inclusion of new amendments by the House of Commons.
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24 Apr 2013
Businesses would have to show that they have suffered, or are likely to suffer, "substantial financial loss" as a result of comments published about them in order to bring a case for defamation, under proposed reforms to UK libel laws.
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18 Feb 2013
Online publishing platforms could be held liable for defamation after the Court of Appeal ruled that it was possible in some circumstances to consider those platforms as publishers themselves.
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07 Feb 2013
Information that reveals what consumers have searched for on the internet is more likely to constitute sensitive personal data if the searches were conducted on mobile devices as opposed to via "other technologies", a US regulator has said.
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06 Feb 2013
Communications service providers (CSPs) have acknowledged that there is a growing "capability gap" in relation to the ability of intelligence and security agencies to use 'communications data' to tackle terrorism and serious crime.
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11 Jan 2013
Disjointed data storage practices will cause difficulties to financial institutions in their attempts to comply with new US tax avoidance legislation, according to a new report.
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11 Dec 2012
Plans to require telecoms firms and other businesses to store greater quantities of information about individuals' communications in order to give enhanced surveillance capabilities to law enforcement bodies have been criticised by a Parliamentary committee....
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11 Dec 2012
It is either "clueless or recklessly dishonest" to claim that 'deep packet inspection' (DPI) operations respect privacy, a Cambridge academic has said.
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03 Dec 2012
Virgin Media Business will provide free public Wi-Fi within Leeds and Bradford city centres after winning a contract from the local authorities to do so.
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14 Nov 2012
The UK Government and UK courts made fewer requests to Google for information about its users in the six months to June this year than they did in the preceding six months, bucking an international trend, according to Google statistics.
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