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30 Sep 2004
An ambulance technician has lost a complaint to the UK Press Complaints Commission over a News of the World article by an undercover reporter that described her as a "secret vice girl" and accused her of taking part in group sex sessions.
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30 Sep 2004
A new report suggests that 2% of internet users across the US have experienced a direct monetary loss resulting from a phishing attack, putting the nation's total monetary loss to victims of these incidents at approximately $500 million.
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30 Sep 2004
The Press Complaints Commission has rejected a complaint by Leslie Grantham, the actor best known for his role as Dirty Den in Eastenders, that newspaper articles referring to his "sex addiction" and supposed referral to a sex clinic intruded into his...
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30 Sep 2004
A provision of the US Patriot Act that allows the FBI to issue "National Security Letters" to obtain sensitive customer records from ISPs and other businesses was struck down yesterday by a District Court Judge on the grounds that it is unconstitutional....
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29 Sep 2004
Amazon.com and Microsoft yesterday announced that they have taken legal action against the fraudsters behind e-mail scams that took advantage of the Amazon.com name in spoofed e-mails and in fake web sites.
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29 Sep 2004
A big thank you to all of our users who took the time to vote for OUT-LAW.COM in the e-Loties. For the second year in a row, we won the award for "Best law firm online legal services / e-commerce project"; and Struan Robertson, the editor of OUT-LAW,...
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29 Sep 2004
Most UK companies are taking no steps to stop their employees connecting insecure high-tech consumer devices into corporate networks, according to research published today by encryption and security firm BeCrypt.
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29 Sep 2004
The US House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill that will make it illegal to use peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa to share copyrighted works over the internet. First time offenders will face up to three years in prison if the bill becomes law....
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29 Sep 2004
HFC Bank has admitted that it breached data protection regulations when a member of staff sent out e-mails to customers that revealed the e-mail address of all 2,600 customers to whom the message was being sent, according to the BBC.
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28 Sep 2004
Government plans to tackle child abuse by allowing agencies to access data on a planned national database that will identify and hold information on every child in the UK were criticised last week by the Joint Committee on Human Rights.
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