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31 Oct 2008
Google should use its own search engine technology to identify typosquatters and cut off their advertising income, a US lawyer has said. He said that Google had the technical know-how to tell typosquatted domain names from genuine ones.
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30 Oct 2008
A scratch card operator has been ordered to pull its advertising because it did not have in stock the exact number of prizes claimed by its scratch cards. The advertising watchdog has criticised the company for stocking more prizes than advertised.
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30 Oct 2008
A man has tried to overturn a conviction by claiming that he could not have infringed a trade mark because his copy of it was so poor. Gary Boulter has been refused permission to appeal his conviction of criminal trade mark infringement.
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30 Oct 2008
The European Union's data protection authorities have published amended guidance on how companies can legally share customer and staff personal data with parts of the firm located outside the European Union.
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30 Oct 2008
UPDATED: Companies have to provide a means of contact on their websites in addition to their postal and email addresses, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. A telephone number, or a contact form that is answered within 60 minutes, were deemed...
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29 Oct 2008
Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google have signed up to a privacy framework which orders them to challenge any government in the world over requests for private information if they believe the request breaks international human rights laws.
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29 Oct 2008
Google has paid $125 million to settle a copyright lawsuit with book publishers and will continue with its programme of scanning and making available millions of books.
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29 Oct 2008
A court has ruled that Yahoo! and Microsoft had an implied licence to copy and display pages from a website because the operator of that site knew how the search engines' opt-out procedures worked but chose to ignore them.
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29 Oct 2008
The UK's privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is currently pursuing 30 investigations into serious data security breaches, it said. In the past year 227 breaches have been reported to it.
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28 Oct 2008
The publisher of a link to defamatory material does not have any liability for that defamation, a Canadian court has ruled. Liability could only exist if the link publisher made any statement relating to the defamatory material itself, the court said....
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