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30 May 2008
Consumer insurance law is in urgent need of reform, according to consumer groups, lawyers, brokers and most insurance firms responding to a consultation by the English and Scottish Law Commissions. The responses were published this week.
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30 May 2008
Consumers will have new rights when buying travel insurance along with a holiday from the beginning of next year, but firms must prepare for the new regime now, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has warned.
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29 May 2008
Dell has been criticised by the advertising watchdog for not making it clear enough that a laptop would incur a £60 delivery charge. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said that the charge "added significantly" to the cost of the computer....
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29 May 2008
Two British newspaper publishers have been fined in French courts because they violated French privacy laws. The publishers were liable because the articles were viewed in France on the internet.
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29 May 2008
Nearly half of UK companies have fired workers in the past year because of abuses of email. Over half of UK firms regularly audit employees' email to make sure they are complying with company rules, a survey has found.
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29 May 2008
German prosecutors have begun an investigation into allegations of data misuse by telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom. Today's announcement follows the company's admission earlier in the week that phone call records had been misused.
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28 May 2008
The group of Belgian newspapers which is suing Google over its Google News service claims that Google's alleged infringements have cost its members up to €49 million. The group, Copiepresse, wants Google to pay €4 million immediately.
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28 May 2008
A Seattle man is free to sell second-hand software on eBay, a US court has said. It found that the maker of the software, Autodesk, could not stop the resale by claiming that its software is licensed rather than sold.
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28 May 2008
One of the patents at the heart of a landmark UK ruling on patentable subject matter has been revoked. Aerotel has lost the right to its patent for telephone systems in a case against phone service provider WaveCrest.
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27 May 2008
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has criticised proposals to build one Government-owned database to hold a log of phone calls, email and internet use in the UK. The ICO has said that the move would be unjustified.
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