Hi, Here is your weekly round-up of highlights from OUT-LAW News. As always, click the links to read the full stories of the summaries below or see these and many other stories from this week's news at http://www.out-law.com/page-5951. The OUT-LAW Team ***Google is hiring!*** Google are looking for technology savvy, creative but practical thinkers to further build their legal department across Europe and tackle a wide range of UK and other European issues. They currently have a variety of roles open to qualified lawyers with various degrees of professional experience. See: http://www.google.co.uk/support/jobs/bin/topic.py?loc_id=1113&dep_id=1090 ***This week's highlights from OUT-LAW News*** 1. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-7797 2. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-7794 3. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-7788 4. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-7783 5. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-7784 6. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-7782 ***OUT-LAW Radio*** 22/02/2007: Craigslist has taken the US by storm and its pages are read 6 billion times a month. CEO Jim Buckmaster explains why he and founder Craig Newmark don't want your money. http://www.out-law.com/page-7212 ***About this email*** This is a weekly email for subscribers of OUT-LAW.COM, a website run by international law firm Pinsent Masons of 30 Aylesbury Street, London, EC1R 0ER. Feel free to forward this email to your friends. If someone forwarded this email to you and you'd like your own subscription, register free at http://www.out-law.com. Existing subscribers: you can manage your profile at http://www.out-law.com/page-520. The email address for this subscription is <>. Feel free to give us your feedback by replying to this email. To unsubscribe, please reply with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. (We'd also appreciate you telling us why you've decided to unsubscribe.)