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31 May 2002
A business running misleading adverts for data protection notification services was yesterday halted by the English High Court following action by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
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31 May 2002
Luxury cars, cash and jewellery worth over $30 million have been seized by officials from individuals running a company in Arizona that sold bogus penile enlargement pills over the internet. Its web sites have been closed.
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31 May 2002
The Inland Revenue this week suspended its on-line self-assessment tax return system after complaints from some users that, when logging in, they could see the details of other users. The security breach is being seen as an embarrassing blow to the Government’s...
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31 May 2002
Amazon.co.uk and BOL have agreed to follow a demand by the UK’s Office of Fair Trading to include delivery charges in refunds that they provide to customers who return goods within the cooling-off period provided for under the Distance Selling Regulations....
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30 May 2002
Stephen Timms has replaced Douglas Alexander as E-commerce Minister in the UK as a result of a Government reshuffle following the resignation of Transport Minister Stephen Byers.
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30 May 2002
Steffi Graf has won a court appeal in Cologne against Microsoft Germany over fake nude photos of her that appeared on web pages hosted by the company. However, the decision, if media reports are accurate, gives cause for concern.
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30 May 2002
An FBI anti-terrorism investigation was hampered by technical flaws in the Bureau's controversial Carnivore internet surveillance system, according to an internal FBI memo. It appears that the system also monitors the communications of innocent parties....
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30 May 2002
To the concern of privacy advocates, the European Parliament today largely approved a compromise on the proposed Directive for the protection of personal data and privacy in electronic communications.
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29 May 2002
On Thursday, the European Parliament will vote on a proposed data protection law that includes controversial provisions in the fields of data retention, spam and cookies. Parliament’s two largest political parties have reached agreement on amendments...
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29 May 2002
In a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court has limited the scope of the controversial Festo case, a decision of November 2000 that significantly limited the ability of patent owners to sue for infringements. The original ruling was seen as a to threat...
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