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Monitoring of employee breached human rights, says European court

The monitoring by a Welsh college of an employee's email, phone and internet use was a breach of her human rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The UK Government must pay £3,000 damages and legal costs in the case.
04/04/2007

Apple strikes deal with EMI but European regulators are not pacified

EMI and Apple have agreed to sell the record label's entire non-Beatles back catalogue without digital rights management restrictions, but the music industry faces increased pressure to change the way it sells digital music.
04/04/2007

Hacker McKinnon loses extradition appeal

NASA hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his appeal at the High Court against his extradition to the US to face a trial by prosecutors who allegedly told him he "would fry". McKinnon's lawyers will seek leave to appeal to the House of Lords.
03/04/2007

Home Office publishes data retention proposal

The Home Office has published draft Regulations to require the retention of certain call data by phone companies for 12 months. Internet telephony and internet access data will not be covered for the time being.
03/04/2007

Lords decline to hear McKennitt privacy case

The House of Lords today refused an author permission to appeal a ban on her book, ending a case that will be seen as a landmark in the development of an English privacy law.
30/03/2007

IP Directive to harmonise criminal law across Europe

A European Parliament committee has voted in favour of an EU-wide law which would criminalise intentional infringements of an intellectual property right on a commercial scale.
30/03/2007