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This blawg "has 7,000 pages of free legal news and guidance, mostly on IT and e-commerce issues. These issues can affect any organisation, and OUT-LAW is as much for those in a software start-up as it is for the compliance team at a bank." It also provides a weekly Thursday podcast, OUT-LAW Radio.
Author: Struan Robertson is the editor of Out-Law.com, OUT-LAW Magazine and OUT-LAW's sister site, AboutCookies.org. He also writes a weekly technology column for Times Online, a column for the British Computer Society’s Information Security Now quarterly journal and a monthly Q&A for .Net magazine. He works out of the Glasgow, Scotland, office of Pinsent Masons, a full-service law firm with eight offices in the U.K. as well as others in Hong Kong, China, Belgium and the United Arab Emirates.
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Recent Posts from Out-Law.com
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Database anonymity at risk, warns researcher
People might be more identifiable than previously thought from supposedly anonymised information contained in large databases, according to a technology law expert. New research recommends that privacy practices and even privacy laws need to change.
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High Court ruled against Skype founders' US action on day of settlement
Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis were told their case against Skype-owner eBay had to be conducted in the English courts on the day that they later agreed a compromise with eBay.
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High Court rules acquiescence cost Formula One sponsor the right to cancel
An airline which sponsored a car racing team was not entitled to end the multi-million pound sponsorship agreement on the basis of claimed breaches of contract because it left it too long to complain about…
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YouTube is profitable, says YouTube and Google founding investor
YouTube is profitable and has been for 18 months according to the venture capitalist who made the first major investments in both YouTube and its parent company, Google. Google has said that the video sharing…
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Government confirms plan to disconnect alleged file-sharers
The Government has confirmed that it will pass legislation allowing for the termination of internet connections used by suspected illegal file-sharers but has not yet said whether the action will be subject to independent or…
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Google's free service opens up US legal search market
Google has entered the market for legal information with a free service that allows users to search a database of US laws and court rulings. The move could endanger long-established legal publishers such as Westlaw…
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Premium-rate mobile complaints fall in wake of new rules and EU sweep
Complaints about premium-rate mobile phone services have fallen by 62% in just over a year, according to premium rate regulator PhonepayPlus (PPP). It said that an EU sweep of rogue operators and changes to UK…
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T-Mobile says staff sold phone records to rivals
UPDATED: Customers' records have been illegally traded by employees of T-Mobile, according to the mobile operator. The Information Commissioner's Office has reported that millions of records were involved.
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Internet Archive backs short URL repository
Some of the companies behind web address shortening services have joined together to created an archive of links so that the links continue to work if any of them go out of business.
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ISPs and public believe Government data safeguards inadequate
The internet access industry and members of the public have rejected the Government's plans to retain details of citizens' internet access, saying that safeguards for internet users' privacy were inadequate.