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18 Dec 2009
Organisations cannot count the hours they spend blanking out parts of documents when calculating whether a freedom of information request is too time consuming to be met, the Information Tribunal has ruled.
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17 Dec 2009
EDITORIAL: Could something as simple as better labelling quell much of the user and regulator disquiet about behavioural advertising? It's not a panacea, but it would certainly help.
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17 Dec 2009
The Digital Economy Bill would give the Government the power to control the internet access of UK citizens by ministerial order, bypassing Parliament and without an adequate right of appeal, according to one legal expert.
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17 Dec 2009
The maximum amount that an Employment Tribunal can award in compensation for unfair dismissal has fallen for what is believed to be the first time.
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17 Dec 2009
The European Commission has dropped its competition law case against Microsoft over its browser software and accepted the company's solution of offering Microsoft Windows users a screen through which they can choose non-Microsoft browsers.
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17 Dec 2009
Five UK news publishers have won the right not to hand over leaked documents after defying successive UK court rulings ordering them to release the files. The papers claimed doing so would reveal their sources.
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17 Dec 2009
An anonymous web user who posted a comment under an online newspaper story cannot be un-masked, a US Court has ruled. It found that the person did not waive his rights to anonymity despite the contents of the site's privacy policy.
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16 Dec 2009
The Government has appointed a regulator to oversee the use of CCTV technology amidst growing concerns about surveillance and the effectiveness of the cameras. A minister said he hoped the appointment would "address public concern" about CCTV use.
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16 Dec 2009
The makers of sci-fi blockbuster Star Wars have failed in their bid to establish that they owned the copyright in the helmets of the film's sinister stormtrooper army. In an appeal they lost a right, granted earlier, to enforce a US copyright ruling....
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16 Dec 2009
Consumers buying insurance will no longer have to second guess what information is relevant to the insurer if proposals to change the law come into effect. Instead, they will merely have to answer fully and accurately any questions the insurer asks.
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