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31 Jan 2008
The organisation in charge of the internet's addressing systems wants to change the charging structure for global domain names to put an end to a multimillion pound business that takes advantage of a loophole in its rules.
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31 Jan 2008
Employees who are out of work on sick leave can build up holiday entitlements, according to an Advocate General of the European Court of Justice. If they are then laid off, they must be paid in lieu of untaken holiday, she said.
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31 Jan 2008
The inventor of an early USB memory stick has lost its appeal against the revocation of its patent. The company, Trek 2000, failed to win permission to amend its patent in order to keep it active.
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31 Jan 2008
Recent security scandals have raised the profile of the Data Protection Act (DPA). But 10 years after it was passed, many organisations still misunderstand it. Sue Cullen of Pinsent Masons' information law team debunks some of the common myths.
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30 Jan 2008
OPINION: Any record industry exec would have been weeping into his cornflakes today as he perused the newspapers. The European Court of Justice was reported everywhere as having handed victory in a battle to privacy activists and file-sharers by...
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30 Jan 2008
Despite press reports to the contrary, public authorities tapped just 1,435 phones and not 250,000 in a nine month period in 2006. The larger figure includes less heavily regulated requests for information about phone usage.
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30 Jan 2008
OPINION: European life is full of databases packed with our personal information. Airlines collect our data and pass it on to EU authorities for border control; alert lists track those connected with crimes; a new visa system tracks travellers.
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29 Jan 2008
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled today that EU law does not force the disclosure of internet users' details in file-sharing cases. The judgment will be a blow to record labels but could also put ISPs in the UK at a commercial disadvantage, a...
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29 Jan 2008
Broadcaster BskyB must sell over 10% of its stake in rival ITV because its shareholding is against the public interest, the Government has ordered.
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29 Jan 2008
Social networking company MySpace has won the right to have the domain name myspace.co.uk transferred to it despite the fact that it was registered six years before MySpace was founded.
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