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01 Jun 2005
A national identity cards scheme could cost as much as £300 per person, not £93 as suggested by Government estimates, according to a draft report by the London School of Economics, a copy of which was seen by the Observer newspaper.
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01 Jun 2005
The Trades Union Congress yesterday tried to demolish the "myths" put forward by employers over the 48-hour working week, hoping to influence an imminent EU debate over proposed amendments to the Working Time Directive.
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01 Jun 2005
The US Justice Department wants to obtain sensitive customer records from ISPs, according to the Associated Press. It is asking a court to overturn a ruling that struck down sweeping investigative powers in the Patriot Act as unconstitutional.
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01 Jun 2005
Yahoo! has been sued for $3 million because it did not remove nude photos of a woman, posted on-line by her ex-boyfriend without permission. The claim appears to focus on a failure to honour an alleged promise to remove the pictures.
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27 May 2005
A number of leading telecoms providers, including BT, O2 and Telewest, will in future share information about suspected serious breaches of the premium rate industry's Code of Practice.
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27 May 2005
From today, all companies selling fixed-line telecoms services will be required to comply with Codes of Practice for sales and marketing and could face fines of up to 10% of turnover for any infringements – which would include "slamming".
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27 May 2005
A group of academic publishers have voiced copyright concerns about Google's new Print for Libraries plan – which hopes to digitally scan certain library collections so that books can be matched to internet search queries.
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27 May 2005
Government agencies around the world are calling for the quarantining of spam zombies – virus-infected home computers that are used by spammers to "bounce" or route millions of spam e-mails, without the computer owners' knowledge.
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27 May 2005
Digital rights activists are celebrating today with the expiry of powers in the UK's Electronic Communications Act of 2000 that gave the Government the right to regulate companies selling encryption services.
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27 May 2005
Employers need to change their attitude towards the disabled and make more of an effort to recruit disabled workers, Trades Union Congress Deputy General Secretary Frances O'Grady told delegates at the TUC disability conference today.
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