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Fri, Jul, 30 2010
Virgin Media broke advertising regulations when it sent an email promoting deals and offers to a customer who had opted out of marketing communications, the advertising regulator has said. The company had claimed the message was a service update.
Fri, Jul, 30 2010
An importer of 'mod chips' that allowed people to play pirated Nintendo DS video games infringed copyright and broke laws forbidding the circumvention of copy-protection technology, the High Court has said.
Fri, Jul, 30 2010
The US House of Representatives has passed a law which will render libel rulings from the English courts unenforceable there. The bill has already been passed by the Senate and will go to US President Barack Obama to be signed into law.
Fri, Jul, 30 2010
Google was wrong to gather data about and from wireless networks when its cars documented the UK's streets for its Street View service but it is "unlikely" that the company gathered much personal data, the UK privacy watchdog has said.
