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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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Exclusion clauses may fragment after High Court ruling
Wording in a contract that seeks to exclude liability in a contract is more vulnerable to being struck out than lawyers previously thought. A ruling suggests that exclusion clauses are more likely to be effective…
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Don't panic over the secret copyright treaty
OPINION: Secret gatherings of the world's governments are usually the stuff of fevered imaginings, but just one such gathering is this week generating its own fair share of paranoia.
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Insurance costs will rise with temperatures, warns ABI
Climate change is likely to make property insurance more expensive and harder to obtain, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) predicted this week.
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Preferential lighting rendered ad misleading, rules ASA
An advertiser broke the rules when it used better lighting, posing and colours in the 'before' than the 'after' pictures in a cosmetics ad, regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said.
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Online betting firm founder sentence to four years in jail
The founder of a London-listed online bookmaker has been jailed for four years in the US. Internet gambling is illegal in the US and Kaplan and his company were based in Costa Rica.
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Hong Kong's data protection review is inadequate
OPINION: Hong Kong's data protection laws should be brought into line with those of the EU and other countries, according to Hong Kong's Government and privacy office. Unfortunately they are refusing to take the simple…
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High Court relieves hosting firm of duty to hand domain name to Kentucky
The High Court has said that a UK hosting company does not have to comply with a US state court's order demanding that it hand over a gambling company's domain name.
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EU definition of 'open standards' is drastically relaxed
A European project designed to improve the interoperability of technology used by EU bodies and national governments has significantly relaxed its definitions of what can count as an open technology standard.
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Telcos' data breach notification amendment is passed
The European Council has approved a data breach notification rule for Europe's telecoms firms. The amendment to an EU Directive will force telcos to tell customers if they lose their data.
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EU report recommends putting black boxes in cars
A feasibility study has recommended that the European Union make it compulsory for cars to have 'black box recorders' that monitor a driver's actions in the event of a crash. It said driver consent to…