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Image spam and how to fight it

Spammers have become much better at slipping through spam filters, sending colourful promotions as images rather than text. Diego d’Ambra, CTO of SoftScan, gives OUT-LAW readers the full picture.
12/04/2007

15 countries call for EU sharing of DNA databases

Fifteen EU countries have proposed that a treaty governing DNA data sharing signed outside of the structure of the European Union should be adopted as EU policy. The EU's own planned framework on data sharing has not yet been put in place.
12/04/2007

Trading Standards officers become copyright enforcers

Trading Standards officers are now empowered to enter premises and seize goods and documents they believe to be involved in copyright infringement, now that changes to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act have come into force.
11/04/2007

DNA database 'will span most of the UK population'

The Government's DNA retention policy combined with increasingly sophisticated statistical techniques means that eventually most citizens in the UK will be linked to data stored on the police's DNA database, according to a privacy law expert.
11/04/2007

ITN sued for jail key replacement

Television news provider ITN is being sued in the High Court because it broadcast images of a key that could be copied.
10/04/2007

Utah passes trade mark search protection law

The US state of Utah has outlawed the use of other people's trade marks to generate business through search engines. The plan has been called unconstitutional and impractical.
10/04/2007