Hi, here is your weekly round-up of highlights from OUT-LAW News. As always, there are plenty of other stories from this week. You can also access our archive of weekly emails. Europe's privacy watchdogs have issued a rebuke to Facebook, telling the social networking site that changes it made to the site's privacy settings late last year were 'unacceptable'. The new Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition Government said that it will beef up freedom of information law and reduce the number of people whose details are held on the Government's DNA database. Companies must be careful to ensure that any concessions they make to football fans during this year's World Cup benefit all workers equally, according to one employment law expert. A magazine did not intrude into a young woman's privacy when it published photos that she had uploaded to social networking site Bebo when she was 15 because the images had already been widely circulated online. A software company's stipulation that customers could not take action against it for the poor performance of its software was unfair and could not be enforced, the High Court has said. Google has asked a court to rule on whether it is liable for pages found on its sites that contain links to unlawfully shared music. The record label dropped the suit but Google has demanded a ruling in its favour. OUT-LAW Radio will be back soon.
This week's news on OUT-LAW.COM
EU privacy watchdogs say Facebook changes 'unacceptable'
13/05/2010Government outlines plans on privacy and surveillance
13/05/2010Companies should ensure that World Cup concessions are equally applied, says expert
13/05/2010Woman loses privacy case over Bebo pictures published in magazine
13/05/2010Software company's liability clause was not 'reasonable', says High Court
11/05/2010Google demands protection from re-filed copyright law suit
10/05/2010
Friday, 14 May 2010
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