Legal

Former Ofcom IT Chief Jailed For Fraud

Ofcom's ex-IT services chief has been jailed for defrauding the organisation out of more than £500,000

13 years ago

Attorney General Threatens Twitter Injunction Breakers

Twitter users could face prosecution for breaking privacy injunctions, Attorney General Dominic Grieve has warned

13 years ago

Lord Sugar Ordered To Remove Provocative Tweet

A tweet by Lord Sugar back in January was thought to be unfairly influencing jurors in an MP's expenses case

13 years ago

German Pirate Party Servers Seized By Police

The German branch of the Pirate Party, which campaigns for civil rights on the Internet, has been raided

14 years ago

Twitter Users Protest Footballer’s Disclosure Order

British injunction system under stress as footballer is named in a Scottish paper and thousands of tweets

14 years ago

Twitter User ‘Breaks’ Celebrity Injunctions

Lone tweeter challenges the role of online media in privacy law by revealing puported celebrity injunctions

14 years ago

ISPs Lose Judicial Review Of Digital Economy Act

BT and TalkTalk have failed in their bid to have the Digital Economy Act's copyright measures ruled illegal

14 years ago

Leaked Emails Heat Up Facebook Lawsuit

Developer Paul Ceglia says emails prove 50 percent of Facebook is his

14 years ago

Twins Lose Out In Facebook Case

The Winklevoss twins may be out of legal options after years of litigation against Facebook

14 years ago

Google Looks To Buy Nortel’s Patent Portfolio

Google, needing patents to fend off intellectual property litigation, has bid £560 million for Nortel's portfolio

14 years ago

Gosling Will Boost Google’s Defence Against Oracle

Google's hiring of Java creator James Gosling in the midst of a legal brawl with Oracle over Java patent infringement…

14 years ago

Google Brought To Book On Mega Digital Library Plans

Google's dream of scanning every book in the world suffered a setback in the US courts

14 years ago

Online Poker Chips Thief From Devon Jailed

A British hacker who pilfered billions of Zynga’s virtual poker chips faces years behind bars

14 years ago

XXX Porn Domain Set To Go Live

The top-level domain .xxx has been approved by ICANN and is set to go live in June or July

14 years ago

Prisons Struggling To Answer The Call Of ‘Cell’ Phones

The cost of finding thousands of phones smuggled into British prisons is taxing prison officers

14 years ago

Judge Closes Book On ACS:Law File-Sharing Cases

All cases against file-sharers bought by ACS:Law have been dismissed - but will Andrew Crossley be fined?

14 years ago

Update: Assange Extradited, 7 Days To Appeal

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange has seven days to appeal, after a judge ruled he should be extradited to Sweden

14 years ago

Nintendo Hacker Arrested In Spain

The Spanish police have arrested a man accused of hacking and leaking Nintendo users' data online

14 years ago

Assange Extradition Hearing Adjourned Until 24 Feb

Wikileaks' Julian Assange will hear on 24 Feb if he is to be extradited to Sweden, while US authorities hit…

14 years ago

Assange Faces Court, Anonymous Defaces “FBI Snitch”

As WikiLeaks' Julian Assange faces possible extradition, his supporters attacked an FBI informer online

14 years ago

Despite Closure, ACS:Law Founder Could Face Bill

Although ACS:Law and MediaCAT have closed down, the men behind them could still be liable for legal costs

14 years ago

FBI Issues 40 Warrants Over WikiLeaks

The FBI has taken action over Anonymous DDoS attacks that supported WikiLeaks

14 years ago

ACS:Law File-Sharing Fiasco Astonishes Judge

Trying to drop file sharing cases, ACS:Law has got itself in a worse tangle

14 years ago

Microsoft-Backed Consortium Still After Novell Patents

Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and EMC's consortium, CPTN Holdings, is apparently still intent on acquiring 882 Novell patents

14 years ago

Iceland Hits Back At WikiLeaks Investigation

The US ambassador has been called to explain why an Icelandic MP is under investigation over WikiLeaks

14 years ago

Pirate Bay Defendant Heads For Supreme Court

One of the defendants in the Pirate Bay trial says he will take his appeal bid to the Supreme Court…

14 years ago

Patent Monopolies Threaten Open Source Innovation

If patent holders start picking on members of the open source community, innovation will suffer, warns Eric Doyle

14 years ago

Apple-Nokia Patent War Begins New Round

In an all-out patent row, Nokia has issued 13 complaints against Apple in Europe

14 years ago

Film Industry Orders BT To Block File-Sharing Site

The Hollywood film studios'association has demanded that BT blocks access to Usenet indexing site Newzbin2

14 years ago

Assange Defence Fund Backed By Pilger And Others

A legal defence fund for WikiLeaks' Julian Assange has been set up, backed by journalist John Pilger

14 years ago