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11 Jul 2012
A Parliamentary committee is seeking views on Government plans to expand existing laws on communications surveillance.
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05 Jul 2012
OPINION: The UK Government is considering reform of copyright laws in the wake of the Hargreaves Review. One change that it must make when reforming copyright law is to make it clear that the act of web browsing does not require permission from copyright...
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28 Jun 2012
The Government is to repeal sections of the Digital Economy Act (DEA) which give the Culture Secretary the power to draw up new regulations on website blocking.
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21 Jun 2012
Internet service providers (ISPs) and copyright holders in Denmark have agreed on a framework that would see all ISPs in the country block access to copyright-infringing content if one of the providers is ordered to do so by a court.
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14 Jun 2012
The police, intelligence services and other public authorities are to be given new powers of communications surveillance under plans unveiled by the Government.
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13 Jun 2012
Website operators can only take advantage of an exemption from new cookie laws if site users specifically request a service or function and that service would not work without the serving of the cookie, EU data protection regulators have warned. ...
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12 Jun 2012
New technology that stops websites gathering information about users should not be switched on by default but should require an explicit instruction to begin working, an internet standards body has said.
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23 May 2012
Facebook may be forced to make changes to its data use policy after campaigners helped drive enough complaints about the company's own proposed amendments to trigger a user vote on the matter.
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21 May 2012
European privacy watchdogs have not agreed a single approach to enforcement of new laws on cookies, the deputy Information Commissioner has said.
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17 May 2012
Most Government websites will fail to comply with new laws on 'cookies' when the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) begins formally enforcing them next week, the Cabinet Office has said, according to a reports.
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