September 2004 Articles

    • Ambulance worker loses 'vice girl' privacy complaint

      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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    • Phishing leaps as US consumer losses reach $500 million

      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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    • Dirty Den privacy complaint rejected

      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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    • Key provision in Patriot Act ruled unconstitutional

      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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    • Amazon.com and Microsoft join forces against scammers

      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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    • OUT-LAW wins again

      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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    • USB 'menace' leaves employers exposed

      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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    • File-sharing bill passed by Congress

      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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    • Bank admits data protection blunder in e-mail

      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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    • Children Bill repeats ID Card database problems

      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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