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High Court forces BT to block links to pirate site
BT must prevent its customers from accessing a website which provides links to
pirated films, a High Court judge has said.
28/07/2011
Clippings ruling could derail much online publishing, says expert
OPINION: Are you reading this at work? Are you sure you are not breaking
copyright law by doing so? If OUT-LAW.COM copied most websites' terms and
conditions you probably would be, if the Court of Appeal is to be believed.
28/07/2011
Regional police to join forces to conduct surveillance
Regional police forces are banding together to carry out surveillance operations
till-now carried out by the soon to be disbanded Serious Orgasnised Crime Agency
(SOCA), The Guardian newspaper has reported.
26/07/2011
Met passed blagging files in March, says ICO
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has passed London's Metropolitan
Police evidence it gathered in a raid on the office of a private investigator
which connected almost every UK newspaper group to the illegal trade in personal
information.
25/07/2011
If letters can be evidence so can Facebook posts, says expert
OPINION: Private things turn up in court cases. This has always been the case,
and there are many people in jail, paying fines or out of a job because of what
they have said or done in private.
25/07/2011
EU privacy watchdogs contradict UK position on cookie consent
EU data protection watchdogs have contradicted UK regulations on the use of
cookies, advising the European Commission to specify that user consent must be
obtained before cookies are used.
25/07/2011
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