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30 Apr 2007
Europe's privacy watchdog has expressed "grave concern" about a proposal to share personal information between police forces across Europe, calling it a "lowest common denominator approach that would hinder the fundamental rights of EU citizens".
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30 Apr 2007
A computing trade body has filed a complaint against Sun Microsystems with the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), claiming that the computer giant has created an effective monopoly in the second-hand sales of its machines in Europe.
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30 Apr 2007
The House of Lords will investigate whether the UK's 'surveillance society' is unconstitutional. The Lords' Constitution Committee has asked for evidence in an investigation it has launched into surveillance in the UK.
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30 Apr 2007
A new US law has been proposed which would overturn last year's banning of internet gambling. The bill proposes heavy regulation of licensed online gambling operations.
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27 Apr 2007
A law has been proposed in the US Congress that would overturn a recent ruling on internet radio royalty payments. The bill could save internet radio, according to activists.
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27 Apr 2007
A cartel of paper producers has had the fines of some members reduced after appealing European Commission-imposed penalties to the European Court of First Instance (CFI). Most of the fines, though, received the backing of the Court yesterday.
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27 Apr 2007
Internet service providers (ISPs) should provide 24-hour emergency contacts for police and security services, according to the ISP industry body the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA).
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26 Apr 2007
Hackers have combined spam and malware together in a single email threat.
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26 Apr 2007
A controversial Directive which criminalises intellectual property violations in Europe was approved yesterday by the European Parliament but does not include its most controversial element, the criminalising of patent infringement.
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26 Apr 2007
A data protection 'crisis' predicted by some experts has been overblown, and the law change behind it will affect only a very few organisations, according to a leading data protection expert.
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