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European Commission proposes the 28th regime as alternative to national laws

4 March 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The European Commission has proposed a new law spanning the European Union which would aim to increase cross-border trade. In 2008, only 7% of web site transaction were made cross-borders. Viviane Reding,...

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European Commission wants to push ahead with Consumer Rights Directive

4 March 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The European Commission has signalled its intent to push forward with its proposed Consumer Rights Directive. Viviane Reding, the Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Commissioner, would like to...

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European Commission investigates allegations that Google acted ‘anti-competitively’ in ranking of rivals’ sites on its natural search results

26 February 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The European Commission is investigating allegations that Google has acted anti-competitively over the way it has been ranking search results. Three businesses have complained to the Commission that their...

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European data protection supervisor concerned over data protection issues with international anti-counterfeiting trade agreement

25 February 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Peter Hustinx – the European data protection supervisor – has expressed concern that the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement currently being negotiated may not be protecting people’s data protection...

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European Commission updates data export laws to take account of sub-contracting in outsourced processing

18 February 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Under the EU’s Data Protection Directive, personal data cannot be transferred out of the European Economic Area unless there is adequate protection of the data. One way of ensuring adequate protection...

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Virgin controversially trials new software to get info on peer-to-peer file-sharers

26 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Virgin Media is planning to trial new software called CView which would analyse file-sharing by its customers. Privacy International – a privacy rights watchdog – has taken issue with the Internet...

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European Commission to publicly give companies clean bill of health if investigations don’t turn up much incriminating evidence

11 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The European Commission is planning to publicly give its reasons for closing proceedings or rejecting complaints if it does not find sufficient incriminating evidence to take investigations or prosecutions...

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Microsoft settles 10 year competition fight with European Commission

22 December 2009 | Mark Weston

Microsoft and the European commission have ended 10 years of fighting with an agreement over Microsoft’s alleged bundling of its Internet Explorer browser software with its Windows operating system....

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Intel faces anti-competition federal lawsuit but has paid AMD US$1.25bn to end 12 year dispute…

2 December 2009 | Samantha Lloyd

Intel is facing a US federal lawsuit after being accused by the New York Attorney General of using ‘bribery and coercion’ to force computer manufacturers to purchase its central processing unit computer...

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Mandatory notification of data breaches introduced by the European Commission…

2 December 2009 | Mark Weston

The European Commission has passed a new privacy regulation which would require communications providers and Internet service providers to notify individuals whose personal details have been exposed to...

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