Legal IT

Ofcom will deny premium-rate numbers to past phone offenders

Anyone who has abused premium-rate telephone numbers in the past will be barred from using the numbers again, telecoms regulator Ofcom has said

TUE 30 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

AdSense ads must be vetted by publishers, says ad regulator

Publishers must take responsibility for the suitability of published adverts, even if the ads are chosen by an automated system like Google's AdSense, the advertising regulator has said

WED 24 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

Site glitches blamed for abandoned shopping carts on the web

Almost nine out of ten people who try to buy online run into problems, an annual customer survey has found. The research found that those problems can seriously affect businesses, as 41% of customers would abandon transactions if they came across a problem

TUE 23 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

British police bring fraud and copyright charges over file-sharing service

The man police believe was behind the OiNK music file-sharing service has been charged with conspiracy to defraud

FRI 12 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

Advertisers try to block Google-Yahoo! ad deal

A major advertisers' group has told US antitrust authorities that Yahoo!'s use of Google to supply some advertising will harm the advertising market

MON 08 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

Security industry's biggest worry is data leakage, says survey

The problem information security professionals are most worried about is preventing data loss by their organisations, a survey has found

THU 28 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

Apple cloner bites back with threat of antitrust suit

Apple will face legal action over its insistence that its software only run on its own hardware

WED 27 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

EBay wins Belgian victory over counterfeit sales

A Belgian court has backed eBay in the latest ruling on the auction firm's liability for the sale of counterfeit goods

FRI 15 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

Tiffany appeals US court's eBay ruling

Jeweller Tiffany has lodged an appeal against a US court ruling that said that eBay is not responsible for the sale of fakes on its auction site

TUE 12 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

Google's Street View cleared by privacy watchdog

Google's Street View service has received the blessing of UK privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner, who has said that the safeguards Google has put in place for people's privacy are 'adequate'

FRI 01 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

Oracle makes additional court claims about alleged SAP misbehaviour

A dispute between two of the world's biggest business software companies has escalated, with Oracle accusing SAP executives of knowing about a subsidiary's alleged downloading of five terabytes of Oracle software and documentation

WED 30 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

US Patent Office rulings threaten key Google patent, says expert

Recent US patent rulings could undermine the patentability of software in the US at a stroke, a leading US patent expert has warned

WED 23 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

Log-deleting search engine wins award

A search engine that deletes all data relating to users after 48 hours has been awarded the first privacy award of a European body set up to promote privacy

FRI 18 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

YouTube can hide user details in massive Viacom data dump

The user IDs and internet protocol (IP) addresses of everyone who has ever watched a video on YouTube will not now be sent by its parent company Google to Viacom after a climb-down by the television company

WED 16 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

Apple's exact iPhone image reproduction saves it from censure

Apple has been cleared of misleading potential iPhone customers by exaggerating the quality of its display

WED 16 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

EBay defeats Tiffany in vital trade mark case

EBay does not have to pre-screen its auctions for counterfeits of trade marked goods, a US court has ruled in a case that could have threatened the entire business model of the online auction site

TUE 15 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

Many online retailers miss security deadline

Online retailers must now use an additional layer of security to protect credit cards from fraud, but experts have said that many card processors have missed last week's industry-set deadline.

TUE 08 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

Intel opinion fails to clarify EU trade mark law

A link can be established between two similar trade marks even if they have been registered for completely different goods and services, one of the European Union's Advocates General has said.

TUE 08 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

YouTube data to be released, but Google keeps technology secret

Users of YouTube will have their access details handed over to entertainment giant Viacom and the English football Premier League after a US judge ordered the disclosure of a 12 terabyte database.

MON 07 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

Google bows to pressure, adds privacy link to home page

Google has added a link to its privacy policy from its sparse front page, bowing to pressure from privacy activists.

MON 07 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT

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