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Trade agreement plans do not include iPod frisking
A feared trade agreement between the world's richest countries that opponents
claimed would allow for the examining and impounding of iPods at airports is
unlikely to result in such activities.
17/07/2008
Privacy watchdogs try to ease data sharing compliance for multinationals
A committee of data protection regulators has developed a toolkit to help global
companies comply with EU laws that control overseas transfers of personal data
within their groups. The toolkit encourages use of so-called Binding Corporate
Rules (BCRs).
16/07/2008
Apple's exact iPhone image reproduction saves it from censure
Apple has been cleared of misleading potential iPhone customers by exaggerating
the quality of its display. The UK's advertising watchdog rejected a complaint
that a London Underground poster showed better quality pictures than the iPhone
could reproduce.
16/07/2008
Privacy watchdog warns Government over super-database plan
Privacy regulator the Information Commissioner has issued HM Revenue and Customs
and the Ministry of Defence with official warnings after the loss of millions of
people's personal data.
15/07/2008
German court says Wi-Fi providers not liable for others' infringements
A German court has said that the owner of a home wireless network is not
responsible for the activity of other people on that network. The decision
overturns a lower court's ruling that the network owner was responsible for the
copyright infringement.
15/07/2008
EBay defeats Tiffany in vital trade mark case
EBay does not have to pre-screen its auctions for counterfeits of trade marked
goods, a US court has ruled in a case that could have threatened the entire
business model of the online auction site.
15/07/2008
OUT-LAW Radio: The search engine that has no idea who you are
17/07/2008: While privacy activists protest at Google and others' keeping of data about our searches, we talk to the man behind a Dutch search engine that almost instantly deletes users' data.
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