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Facebook made basic error with poor user safeguards, says lawyer
Facebook has agreed to add safeguards to protect children from predators,
obscene content and harassment after New York prosecutors threatened the social
networking site with fraud charges for failing to live up to its own safety
claims.
18/10/2007
Tidy-hair policy does not discriminate against Rastafarians, says EAT
Rastafarians are protected by UK laws that ban workplace discrimination on the
grounds of philosophical belief. But a tidy-hair policy does not discriminate
against someone with dreadlocks, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled.
18/10/2007
US court demands stronger copyright filters for Morpheus
A permanent injunction has been imposed on the distributor of the Morpheus
file-sharing software. A US court ruled yesterday that StreamCast Inc. must use
"the most effective means available to reduce the infringing capabilities of the
system."
17/10/2007
US Patent Office decimates Amazon's 1-Click Patent
Most of the claims in Amazon's controversial patent for shopping with a single
mouse click have been rejected by the US Patent Office. It follows a campaign by
a New Zealander who filed evidence of prior art with funding from readers of his
blog.
17/10/2007
Author and foreign court lose battle to remove libel from US site
A US court has snubbed a ruling by a Canadian court that ordered the removal of
defamatory comments from a US website. The author had also asked that his
comments be removed, but the site refused to comply and the US court has
supported that decision.
16/10/2007
Proposed global privacy standard is too vague and too weak, says expert
The set of rules which Google proposed as the foundation for a global privacy
standard are inadequate, a privacy law expert has said. The rules are not
specific enough to operate as a global standard, said the expert.
15/10/2007
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