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Facebook given green light for contact-poaching case against ConnectU

Facebook has been allowed to proceed with a law suit against a company which it believes wrote software to gain unauthorised access to Facebook address books in order to promote rival firm ConnectU.
15/08/2007

PCC raps paper over online video

The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has issued its first ever ruling on video content published online by a newspaper. It said that the Hamilton Advertiser breached school pupils' rights to privacy with a video of an unruly classroom.
15/08/2007

ISPs tell BBC to pay for iPlayer bandwidth

Internet service providers (ISPs) have warned the BBC that it could have to pay to distribute its content over the internet. They say that large numbers of people watching television content online will strain their networks.
15/08/2007

SCO loses long-running UNIX case

Novell owns the copyrights in the UNIX operating system contested by SCO, a judge has ruled in one of the tech world's longest running and most complicated legal cases. SCO shares lost over 70% of their value on the news.
14/08/2007

Sky-Amstrad deal probed by watchdog

Competition regulators are to scrutinise BSkyB's £125m acquisition of Amstrad to see if the deal will hit competition in the TV technology market.
13/08/2007

Lords call for ethical hacker protection and security-breach notification law

The Government must stop changes to an anti-hacking law criminalising the work of security researchers, a House of Lords Committee has said. If it does not, internet security could become an even bigger danger because 'ethical hacking' will be illegal.
10/08/2007