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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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Virgin admits disconnection threat mistake
Virgin Media has said that a threat sent out to 800 of its customers that they could be disconnected from the internet because of alleged copyright infringement was a mistake.
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Games firm wins rulings against British BitTorrent users
A London court has come down in favour of a games publisher in four cases in which it claimed that the users had been illegally downloading and sharing computer games on the internet.
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Scottish Government considers FOI extension to private companies
The Scottish Government is considering extending freedom of information (FOI) legislation to cover private bodies which perform public functions. One FOI expert says, though, that most of its suggestions would require no change to the…
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Google's controversial Street View hits the UK
Google's Street View photography cars have been spotted on the streets of London. The company started its first European data gathering for the service in April in Italy.
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Virgin rapped over TV download claim
Virgin Media misled customers by suggesting they could download television shows quickly using its broadband internet when in fact many peak time users' connections would be slowed down when trying to do so, the UK's…
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Belgian agency to sue European Commission again over news aggregator
Belgian newspaper lobby group Copiepresse has had its copyright infringement case against the European Commission thrown out of a Belgian court, but says that it will re-submit the case to a civil court
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Local paper rapped over online video of woman's house
A newspaper has been censured for placing video content on its website which invaded a woman's privacy by showing the inside of her home.
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UK surveillance breaches human rights, rules ECHR
The UK Government's surveillance practices violate the privacy rights of UK and foreign citizens, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled. The judgment follows a nine-year battle over phone and internet taps
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European court asked if football broadcasting barriers are legal
Europe's highest court will be asked to rule whether broadcasters can stop pubs from showing Premiership football using foreign satellite services. The pubs argue that their use of decoding equipment is lawful.
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EBay to pay out millions over French counterfeit sales
Online auction site eBay has been fined £31.5 million and ordered to forbid the sale of some luxury perfumes in a French court order designed to battle the sale of counterfeit luxury goods.