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. BT must prevent its customers from accessing a website which provides links to pirated films, a High Court judge has said. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. This is a weekly email for subscribers of OUT-LAW.COM, a website with more than 10,000 pages of free legal news and guidance. If and when you need further advice, we hope you'll choose Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind OUT-LAW.COM.This week's news on OUT-LAW.COM
High Court forces BT to block links to pirate site
28/07/2011Clippings ruling could derail much online publishing, says expert
28/07/2011Regional police to join forces to conduct surveillance
26/07/2011Met passed blagging files in March, says ICO
25/07/2011If letters can be evidence so can Facebook posts, says expert
25/07/2011EU privacy watchdogs contradict UK position on cookie consent
25/07/2011
Friday, 29 July 2011
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