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30 Apr 2004
Engine manufacturer Rolls Royce sacked three employees at its plant in East Kilbride, Scotland last week after the men were caught downloading porn from the internet, according to a report in the Daily Record newspaper.
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30 Apr 2004
The first criminal prosecutions under the new US federal anti-spam law were brought this week. Charges were raised against four spammers who were involved in sending unsolicited e-mails advertising bogus diet patches, the Federal Trade Commission announced...
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30 Apr 2004
Google put an end to intense media speculation yesterday by announcing that it has filed for an initial public offering, or IPO, which it has valued at $2.7 billion. Like the company the IPO is somewhat unusual, in that the shares will be sold through...
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30 Apr 2004
With tensions still high in the wake of the Madrid train bombings the EU Council of Ministers is making good on its promise to bring forward the debate on an EU-wide data retention law by publishing a draft Decision setting out the framework for the policy....
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29 Apr 2004
The UK's Office of Fair Trading yesterday warned small businesses not to fall for a scam in which domain name registration agents cold call businesses and pressure them into buying domain names similar to their own.
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29 Apr 2004
The Royal Bank of Scotland has lost an unfair dismissal appeal because it did not disclose to its employee, who was fired for sending porn by e-mail, how the offensiveness of the material was graded and the sanctions applying to each grade.
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29 Apr 2004
A group representing the IT, telecoms and consumer electronics industries is lobbying against the recommendation of a German Patent Office mediator that copyright levies be imposed on printers, saying it would make printers "significantly more expensive"....
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29 Apr 2004
MPs will today hear evidence on possible revisions of the Computer Misuse Act, the UK's anti-hacking law, which dates back to 1990. MPs are concerned that the current legislation does not cover hi-tech crimes, such as denial of service attacks.
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28 Apr 2004
The Council of Ministers has given the final seal of approval to a Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights that will harmonise the remedies and procedures available to right holders throughout the EU. It is due to come into force...
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28 Apr 2004
A Florida State Act that makes it a criminal offence to use tools such as e-mail to seduce a child, or someone the offender believes to be a child, to commit an illegal sexual act, has survived a challenge that the Act violated the right to free speech....
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