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Subject: Your weekly round-up from OUT-LAW.COM
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Hi,
Here is your weekly round-up of highlights from OUT-LAW News.
To read the full stories of the summaries featured below, click the links
(or see these and many other stories from this
<http://www.out-law.com/php/news.php> week's news).
The OUT-LAW Team
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<http://www.out-law.com/php/ctt.php?id=28&url=http://www.out-law.com/php/eve
nts.php?area=about> FREE SEMINAR: An Introduction to Web Accessibility
Glasgow, 3rd February 2004: OUT-LAW and accessibility experts User Vision
will explain the legal and the technical requirements for making your web
site accessible to disabled internet users in this free, 2.5 hour seminar.
<http://www.out-law.com/php/ctt.php?id=28&url=http://www.out-law.com/php/pag
e.php?page_id=dataprote1396&area=working> Data Protection Update Meetings
London, Glasgow and Manchester, January 2004: Keep up to date by exploring
topical data protection developments, e.g. recent case law, the new part of
the Employee data Code, the new e-marketing rules.
This week's highlights from OUT-LAW News (the last of 2003)
<http://www.out-law.com/php/ctt.php?id=28&url=http://www.out-law.com/php/pag
e.php?page_id=privacychieftorev1071754496&area=news> Privacy chief to
revisit Data Protection guidance after Durant
After a landmark Court of Appeal ruling this month, the Information
Commissioner yesterday confirmed he will review his Data Protection guidance
to reflect a more restrictive balancing of data protection and privacy
rights.
18/12/2003
<http://www.out-law.com/php/ctt.php?id=28&url=http://www.out-law.com/php/pag
e.php?page_id=emarketerswarnedb1071754451&area=news> E-marketers warned by
ASA for not getting consent
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority yesterday issued rulings against
two companies that had sent unsolicited commercial e-mail without the
explicit consent of recipients. The e-mails breached a new Code of Practice.
18/12/2003
<http://www.out-law.com/php/ctt.php?id=28&url=http://www.out-law.com/php/pag
e.php?page_id=dvdcopyingsoftware1071754384&area=news> DVD copying software
faces court over new UK copyright law
Warner Home Video UK has sued software company 321 Studios over its DVD
copying software that circumvents security features in DVDs and lets
consumers make back-up copies. The suit follows new UK digital copyright
laws coming into force.
18/12/2003
<http://www.out-law.com/php/ctt.php?id=28&url=http://www.out-law.com/php/pag
e.php?page_id=windowsmessengerad1071693147&area=news> Windows Messenger ads
to pop-up in court with FTC
The FTC is going to trial against a company that irritates PC users with its
barrage of pop-up adverts - which only promote its pop-up blocking software.
The FTC says it's like vandals throwing bricks through windows to sell
home-security.
17/12/2003
<http://www.out-law.com/php/ctt.php?id=28&url=http://www.out-law.com/php/pag
e.php?page_id=mostukwebsitesdo1071231190&area=news> Most UK web sites do not
meet new cookie law
Most of the UK's top 90 web sites will need to make changes to comply with
new regulations which came into force yesterday that require companies to
give certain information about the use of cookies on their sites, according
to WebAbacus.
12/12/2003
<http://www.out-law.com/php/ctt.php?id=28&url=http://www.out-law.com/php/pag
e.php?page_id=emailabusedismiss1071226341&area=news> E-mail abuse dismissals
unfair, says tribunal
Three workers at Hewlett Packard's plant in Renfrewshire, Scotland, who were
fired after sending or receiving e-mails of a sexual nature, have won a
claim of unfair dismissal, according to local newspaper reports.
12/12/2003
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Merry Christmas
As in previous years, instead of sending Christmas cards, Masons has decided
to support the Médecins Sans Frontières charity appeal. You can, however,
see (and hear) OUT-LAW's e-card at the link above.
The OUT-LAW News is now on ice. It will return on Monday 5th January 2004.
Until then, all at OUT-LAW and Masons wish you a very happy and enjoyable
Christmas and New Year.
Médecins Sans Frontières is an independent humanitarian medical aid agency
committed to two objectives: providing medical aid wherever needed,
regardless of race, religion, politics or sex; and raising awareness of the
plight of the people they help.
<http://www.out-law.com/php/ctt.php?id=28&url=http://www.out-law.com/php/new
s.php> All this week's 20 stories
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