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Careless and inexcusable data lapses slammed by UK privacy chief

The Government and some of Britain's largest companies are guilty of "careless and inexcusable" data security lapses leading to serious breaches of privacy, the Information Commissioner has said.
11/07/2007

In-house lawyers under threat from whistleblowing duty

In-house lawyers can be under a greater obligation than other staff to act as a whistleblower within firms, even though they are not always protected by whistleblowing legislation, according to a Law Society Group.
11/07/2007

Deal struck on the phone is binding, rules High Court

An oral contract over the phone is binding, the High Court has ruled in a multi-million pound case which threatened to undermine the way the world of high finance operates. The verbal agreement did not have to be in writing, the court found.
10/07/2007

Men jailed for inciting terrorism on the internet

Three men have been jailed for their use of the internet to incite terrorism. The three were convicted after entering a late change of plea to 'guilty' earlier this week.
09/07/2007

ISP told to block file-sharing in landmark case

An internet service provider in Belgium must screen traffic for music piracy, a court has ruled in a decision which overturns conventional thinking on how two major European directives relate to one another.
06/7/2007

Our data retention is not data protection watchdogs' business, says Google privacy boss

The retention of search engine query data is a security matter and not one for Europe's data protection officials, according to Google's global privacy chief. Peter Fleischer said that its retention of user search data was "just not their field"
06/07/2007