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03 Aug 2007
Ofcom today proposed that all VoIP phone services allowing users to make calls to ordinary phone numbers must also offer access to make 999 emergency calls.
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27 Jul 2007
A man who pretended to be from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and was charging companies to register under the Data Protection Act has been jailed for 20 months. Christopher Williams of Hoole, Chester was sentenced at Liverpool Crown...
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27 Jul 2007
Employment tribunals should assess worker disability not in comparison with the rest of the population, but in comparison with the performance of that worker without that disability, the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has ruled.
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27 Jul 2007
The European Commission has formally charged Intel at the end of a six-year investigation into alleged anti-competitive practices. The chip maker follows its business partner Microsoft into an antitrust dispute with the Commission.
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27 Jul 2007
The reduction of the number of data fields handed to US security services announced by the European Union was achieved by squeezing almost the same amount of data on to fewer lines. The news undermines what was seen as a concession won by EU negotiators....
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27 Jul 2007
UK telecoms companies will have to keep phone call logs for a year under a new law to come into force in October. The law does not apply to records of internet activity, such as web surfing, email and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone calls.
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26 Jul 2007
The founder of Facebook stands accused of stealing the ideas and business plan of three men behind a rival social networking site. But a Boston judge yesterday told ConnectU's founders that they must produce more evidence to support its claims.
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25 Jul 2007
The European Commission and US security authorities have agreed a new deal on the handover of airline passenger information. Data will now be kept for 15 years, far longer than the three-and-a-half year limit in an earlier agreement.
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25 Jul 2007
A company cannot change its contract with consumers simply by posting revised conditions on its website, a US appeals court has ruled. The position is similar in the UK, according to an e-commerce legal expert.
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25 Jul 2007
The internet's major search engines are following Google's lead in limiting their collection of information about web users and their searches. Microsoft, Yahoo! and Ask.com are taking action after controversial policy changes by Google.
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