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Reclining, gun-toting Jolie is glamorous, say regulators
Film posters of Angelina Jolie provocatively holding and shooting guns glamorised violence and should not have been shown where children could see them, the advertising regulator has ruled.
03/09/2008
Re-grading staff could beat discrimination claims, says Acas
Employers should undertake job evaluation programmes to avoid being caught up in the escalating number of discrimination claims reaching Employment Tribunals, the Government's dispute resolution service has said.
03/09/2008
Google launches web browser with privacy mode
Google will release an internet browser called Google Chrome today that could challenge the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox on consumer desktops.
02/09/2008
Video-sharing site wins copyright battle, despite manual checks on videos
Online video site Veoh has been granted safe harbour under US copyright laws, protecting it from liability for copyright-infringing videos posted by users. Manual spot-checks for copyright infringement did not undermine that protection, the court said.
02/09/2008
Arrest made over personal data-filled hard drive sold on eBay
Police have made an arrest in connection with the eBay sale of another laptop computer containing personal data. The security lapse follows last week's eBay sale of a computer containing one million people's banking details.
01/09/2008
Target's $6m web accessibility payout is a warning to all US sites, says lawyer
Target will pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the retail giant's website of breaking US anti-discrimination laws. Blind individuals in California can claim up to $7,000 each if they tried to use Target.com and encountered barriers.
28/08/2008
OUT-LAW Radio: Why database law is bad for business
03/09/2008: An expert in the byzantine field of database law explains why the protections given by Brussels to databases have been counter-productive.
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