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This week's news on OUT-LAW.COM
Firm sued over multiple use of individual's FT.com login
The Financial Times (FT) is suing a company it accuses of using one access account for many users. The FT claims that investment group Blackstone encouraged staff to dodge the cost of multiple subscriptions to its services.
05/02/2009
ICO helps organisations identify 'personal data'
Privacy and data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has published a guide to help organisations decide if information they hold is caught by the Data Protection Act (DPA).
04/02/2009
European court expands image privacy rights
The European Court of Human Rights has expanded the reach of privacy rights by ruling that a photographer breached someone's privacy just by taking a photograph, even though that photograph was never published.
04/02/2009
Websites for children must register their moderators, says new law
Organisations with interactive websites likely to be used mainly by children must ensure that staff moderating the sites are not barred from working with children from October.
03/02/2009
Parliament probes privacy law, could give it legislative 'nudge'
Parliament will investigate privacy law in the UK and may give the law a 'nudge', Justice Minister Jack Straw has said. A select committee of MPs will look into how the law has developed and how it is being implemented by courts, he said.
03/02/2009
ICO urges organisations to promise to do better on privacy
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has asked businesses and public bodies to promise that they will do more than their legal duty to protect the privacy of people whose personal data they hold.
02/02/2009
OUT-LAW Radio: IP in ivory towers: cash or conscience?
05/02/2009: We look at the way that Universities exploit their intellectual property and ask: are they too focused on raising money at the expense of social benefit?
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