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	<title>Email Filtering + Business Email Management &#187; law</title>
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		<title>10k inappropriate images found on county council computers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALMOST 10,000 &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; images have been found on Notts County Council staff&#8217;s computers. They were found when 1 in 8 of the authority&#8217;s computers were scanned in an £82,000 investigation. More than 2,700 of the images were &#8220;highly inappropriate&#8221;, a category including graphic pornography and pictures &#8220;which may cause distress or psychological harm to an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>links for 2007-07-12</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Companies to update websites and email footers Companies in the UK must include certain regulatory information on their websites and in their email footers by the 1st January 2007 or they will breach the Companies Act and risk a fine. Every company should list its company details on all electronic communications and forms. (tags: email-compliance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>image filtering &#8211; the only legal defence against the new UK Harassment law</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 10:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a landmark case in 2006 on the subject of bullying in the workplace; the House of Lords have changed the law so as to make employers liable for workplace harassment even if they were not in any way negligent. The House of Lords decided that the Prevention from Harassment Act 1997 covers the behaviour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Spam lawsuit filed seeking $1 Billion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Utah-based Anti-Spam company Unspam Technologies has filed a one billion dollar lawsuit on behalf of over 20,000 internet users. The suit was filed in Virginia under the CAN-SPAM Act and Virginia law. They are targeting anyone who targets our members with email spam, comment spam, or harvesting. This lawsuit is unique because they believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email monitoring may contravene European law</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monitoring employees&#8217; internet &#038; telephone use at work may contravene EU human rights laws, after a landmark case in the European Court of Human Rights last week. The case involved a public-sector employee, who won €3,000 in damages and €6,000 in court costs and expenses, after her communications were intercepted by her employer, Carmarthenshire College. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Company warning! Email communications added to UK Sexual Offences Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Changes to UK Sexual Offences Act could mean negligent companies face listing on the registry. The inclusion of email harassment in the revised UK Sexual Offences Act could open companies up to legal troubles, said an industry insider. The UK Sexual Offences Act 2003 was recently updated to include &#8220;improper use of public communications.&#8221; Because [...]]]></description>
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