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30 Mar 2007
The House of Lords today refused an author permission to appeal a ban on her book, ending a case that will be seen as a landmark in the development of an English privacy law.
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30 Mar 2007
The English woman sacked for blogging by the accountants she worked for in Paris has won her case for unfair dismissal.
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30 Mar 2007
The credit card details of UK customers of TK Maxx are likely to be in the hands of data thieves. Some of the information stolen from the retailer was taken from the UK and Ireland computer system.
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30 Mar 2007
A European Parliament committee has voted in favour of an EU-wide law which would criminalise intentional infringements of an intellectual property right on a commercial scale.
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30 Mar 2007
The average computer in a small business has 300 unlicensed fonts installed on it, leaving that company exposed to legal action, according to a leading typeface company. Monotype says that the scale and importance of font piracy is being overlooked.
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29 Mar 2007
The Government has stepped back from controversial plans to change the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. It has launched a supplementary consultation that could result in a U-turn on some of its widely-opposed plans.
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29 Mar 2007
Ofcom has tightened its regulatory grip on Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephone services. The telecoms regulator insists that sellers of VoIP are more up front about the nature and limitations of the service.
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29 Mar 2007
Zuxxex, the German games software distributor, has hired lawyers to chase down about 500 British file-sharers, launching the first in a series of swoops by computer forensic experts.
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29 Mar 2007
US retailer Neiman Marcus is suing two domain name registrars for more than $12 million over their registration of names containing variations of its brand. The two linked companies are accused of improperly registering more than 40 domain names.
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28 Mar 2007
The UK Parliament has launched an enquiry into the surveillance conducted on citizens by the Government. It will investigate the growing number and scope of government databases holding increasing amounts of information on citizens.
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