Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) decided that the three-strike anti-file sharing mechanism utilized by the Eircom ISP raised privacy concerns and ordered the practice to be stopped.
On the other hand, to make sure copyright holders won’t be upset, the Irish government is preparing to set up ... |
20 December 2011
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Since the current Convention for the Protection of Individuals that addresses the matter of personal data protection and processing is dated from 1981, when the Internet was nowhere near what it has become today, the Council of Europe proposed a revised version.
The existing convention is employed by 43 countries a... |
5 December 2011
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Since the downloading of copyrighted content is an issue that puts pressure on governments worldwide, Swiss authorities decided to conduct a study to see if they should declare the phenomenon illegal. The results of the research revealed that there’s no need for such legislation since copyright holders are not ... |
2 December 2011
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Those who felt like patent trolls have been going a bit out of hand may finally have a cause to rejoice and grin now that the US Congress voted in favor of massive changes to USPTO.
The thing about the US patent system is that it is in such a way conceived that it allows for the filing of patents for things that ... |
9 September 2011
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The Japanese parliament enacted new legislation that makes malware development a crime punishable by up to three years in prison.Up until now, malware writers could be prosecuted only on destruction of property charges if their creations actually caused damage.Under the revised provisions of the Penal Code adopted wi... |
17 June 2011
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The French National Assembly has adopted a controversial article of a bill known as LOPPSI 2, which allows the government to order websites blocked without a court order.LOPPSI 2 stands for "loi d'orientation et de programmation pour la performance de la sécurité intérieure," which translate... |
20 December 2010
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In the summer of 2009, most airline companies in Canada reversed a ban prohibiting small animals from a person’s company, thus allowing people who could not live without their (small) pets travel with them wherever they went. An editorial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) and cited by... |
17 February 2010
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to draft its first sketch of a global plan of acting out against alcohol. Between now and January 2010, options will be analyzed and stitched together, providing the agency with the first-ever plan of combating the world's fifth leading cause of premature death. Th... |
15 October 2009
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The regulations should specifically refer to DNA samples collected from healthy children, whose parents have signed them up for long-term studies, leading ethics experts say. The data should not be made public, and released in the scientific community until the children reach an age when they can give their consent f... |
14 August 2009
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According to a new bill introduced in Canada, Internet service providers will have to dig deep into their own pockets in order to acquire, install and maintain "intercept-capable" equipment. The bill also makes it very clear that subscriber information must be released to law enforcement in a timely manner, without t... |
19 June 2009
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According to the statement of a Japanese health care official, the country may soon adopt legislation that would severely limit citizen's right to smoke in public places. Although similar laws exist in most countries, the Asian nation is moving for a lot more control with its decision. The same authority has als... |
24 March 2009
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Cruel hunting methods employed by Canada has prompted the European Union to announce that it will implement measures to ban imports of Canadian blubber, meat and pelts by as early as 2009. If the legislation passes, it will deal a devastating blow to the Canadian industry, as fishermen across the Atlantic coast rely ... |
20 November 2008
03:47 GMT |
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European computer users are one step closer to getting jailed for downloading pirated material from the Internet. This is because of a vote cast by the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee in which a set of amendments were adopted. This is part of an IP law which was released in order to protect the rig... |
22 March 2007
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