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Hi, here is your weekly round-up of highlights from OUT-LAW News. As always, there are plenty of other stories from this week.

This week's news on OUT-LAW.COM

Vexatious FOI requests were 'harassment' of transport authority

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ruled in favour of a public authority which complained that it was the subject of so many Freedom of Information requests that the behaviour of the requester was vexatious.
22/02/2007

BPI seeks damages from CD WOW!

The recording industry has taken online retailer CD WOW! to court, claiming that the company is breaking a previous court-ordered undertaking not to sell cheap CDs imported from Asia.
21/02/2007

Interception figures could mask monitoring of millions

British security and law enforcement agencies made 439,000 requests to obtain details of the contacts made by phone and internet users in 2005 and 2006 and could in fact have obtained records on millions of people in this way.
20/02/2007

ICO gives qualified backing to security breach law

Companies may be forced to admit when customer data has been lost by or stolen from them, said the UK Information Commissioner's Office. Deputy Commissioner Phil Jones said there were significant practical concerns but the ICO backed the idea "in theory".
19/02/2007

YouTube biker traced and questioned

A man has been accused of driving his motorcycle through a built up area at over 100 miles per hour, filming the ride and posting the footage on the internet. Jeremy Parrott, 37, of Somerset, was questioned by police after they saw the video on YouTube.
19/02/2007

Offenders' register to include senders of indecent email

The sending of emails of a sexual nature could earn the sender a place on the offenders' register under changes to existing legislation that came into force today.
19/02/2007