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. You can also now access our archive of weekly emails at http://www.out-law.com/page-7793. The OUT-LAW Team ***Free OUT-LAW Breakfast Seminars*** London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow and Edinburgh April 2007: Protecting your name on the net May 2007: Overseas transfers of personal data See: http://www.out-law.com/page-6024 ***Infosecurity Europe*** Infosecurity Europe is Europe's number one, dedicated Information Security event held on the 24th-26th April 2007, Grand Hall, Olympia. Now in its 12th year, the event continues to provide an unrivalled education programme, new products & services, exhibitors and visitors from every segment of the industry. See: http://www.infosec.co.uk/outlaw ***This week's highlights from OUT-LAW News*** 1. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-7952 2. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-7949 3. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-7947 4. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-7945 5. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-7944 6. 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 http://www.out-law.com/page-7942 ***OUT-LAW Radio*** We investigate a computer security system you paint on your walls and catch up on big news from punter-papparazi company Scoopt. 12/04/2007 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.)