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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
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
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 body that governs internet addresses has adopted a plan to battle domain tasting, a practice which businesses claim allows unscrupulous operators to earn millions trading on familiar brand names.
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23 Oct 2008
American Airlines is suing search engine company Yahoo! over the use of its trade marks to trigger adverts for competing airlines. The company has previously settled a similar case with Google.
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23 Oct 2008
Copyright laws and the way that media and telecoms services are regulated could be due for change under a review the Government will conduct into the UK's digital economy. Ex-chief executive of Ofcom Stephen Carter will conduct the review.
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22 Oct 2008
Data protection authorities from all over the world have agreed to call for legislation specifically limiting the collection and use of children's personal data.
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21 Oct 2008
Social networking sites are not permitted to store information about people's use of the sites beyond the duration of a particular session in Germany, according to a panel of all that country's data protection officials.
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