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29 Jun 2007
A US court has said that the existence of child pornography images in the cache of a man's computer did not mean that that man had committed a crime under state law. The Court of Appeals in Georgia has reversed the man's conviction.
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29 Jun 2007
Video rental chain Blockbuster has settled a patent dispute brought against it by online DVD rental company Netflix. Netflix had claimed that a Blockbuster queueing system violated a patent it held.
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29 Jun 2007
The European Union has come to an agreement with the US over the use of European banking data from payments agency SWIFT. SWIFT's secret permission for the US to use banking data caused outrage amongst data protection officials last year.
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29 Jun 2007
A controversial new intellectual property right due to be created by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has been successfully opposed by a coalition of web activists and the technology industry.
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28 Jun 2007
The world's most developed economies will co-operate to uphold privacy laws in the face of increasing amounts of cross border data transfer. The member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have agreed the plan....
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27 Jun 2007
The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has explicitly banned digital snooping by journalists in a change to its Code of Practice. The move comes in the wake of journalist Clive Goodman's conviction for eavesdropping on royal staff members' phone messages....
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27 Jun 2007
The first stage in the first copyright infringement suit against video sharing giant YouTube has ended in stalemate. Both sides in the fight applied for an initial judgment against the other, but neither was granted and the case will now proceed...
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27 Jun 2007
European privacy regulators will expand their investigation into Google's privacy practices to all search engine companies, it has said.
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27 Jun 2007
The Government's plans to limit requests under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act should be blocked, according to a parliamentary committee. It also said that watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) should be better funded.
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26 Jun 2007
Channel 5 has been hit with a £300,000 fine by regulator Ofcom in what is the biggest payout by a public service broadcaster to the regulator. It was found to have faked winners in live call-in competitions.
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