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This week's highlights from Out-Law News
TMT & Sourcing and Intellectual Propery
German privacy regulator re-opens investigation into Facebook facial recognition feature
Facebook is storing pictures of its users without having those individuals' required consent to do so, a data protection authority in Germany has alleged.
16/08/2012
Google creates new patentability assessment tool
Inventors will be able to assess whether ideas they hope to patent are new through a new feature developed by Google.
15/08/2012
Australia's planned plain packaging tobacco law does not violate IP rights, rules court
A proposed Australian law forcing tobacco to be sold in plain packaging will not violate tobacco firms' intellectual property rights, Australia's High Court has ruled.
15/08/2012
Data security tops list of concerns for company directors and lawyers, report says
Data security is the legal issue of most concern to directors of listed companies and corporate lawyers in the US, according to a new report.
15/08/2012
Website operator jailed for four years for conspiring to defraud copyright owners
A man who ran a popular website that provided links to pirated content hosted elsewhere on the internet has been sentenced to four years in jail.
15/08/2012
Employment
Industrial action "becoming increasingly routine" as figures show 1.4m days lost to unrest in 2011
Nearly 1.4 million working days were lost to industrial action in 2011 - almost four times as many as during the previous year and the highest number since 1990, according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).
16/08/2012
Financial services
Standard Chartered settles with US regulators "before dispute resolved judicially and fairly", expert says
Multinational bank Standard Chartered is to settle with US regulators over money laundering allegations in a deal worth $340 million, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has announced.
15/08/2012
Claims management companies creating "unnecessary additional work" for Ombudsman
Claims management companies (CMCs) are causing delays in the resolution of cases involving mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI) by not taking the "well established" approach of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) into account, it has claimed.
16/08/2012
Tax
MP warns Google could face questions over tax arrangements
Executives at global search giant Google could be called before MPs "before Easter" as part of an investigation into the use of tax avoidance schemes by international companies operating in the UK, an MP has said.
15/08/2012
Environmental and climate change
Revamped EU electronic waste rules target 85% collection rate by 2019
Stringent new EU-wide standards for the collection and treatment of electronic waste will introduce ambitious collection targets and cover a wider range of electronic equipment, the European Commission has said.
16/08/2012
Litigation and International Arbitration
Chinese international arbitration centre bars local branches from administering new cases
Two local branches of China's international arbitration body have been told they can no longer accept and administer cases due to their failure to accept the body's new rules, it has been announced.
14/08/2012
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