Blacklister fined £5,000
Blog Ian Kerr, who operated a blacklist of construction workers, has been fined £5,000 at the behest of the Information Commissioner's Office. Before being caught by the ICO in May, Kerr had operated the list since the 1970's, said an ICO statement on...
[July 16, 2009, 17:30]
Intel hit with federal antitrust lawsuit in US
Blog The details of Intel's alleged infractions closely mirror those breaches for which the European Commission fined Intel €1bn in May. Apart from the US and EU cases, Intel was also found guilty of antitrust and fined accordingly by South Korea in 2008.
[November 4, 2009, 18:20]
Pirates on Board the M.S. MoneyTanker!
Blog So why can't Microsoft be fined for their apparent malpractice or indifference in really locking down security around their operating system image? Crackers who get caught and prosecuted are fined for their activity.
[May 14, 2009, 3:08]
IT guy busted over insider trading
Blog An IT professional has been fined £85,000 for insider trading, Management Today reports. The fine was imposed by the Financial Services Authority on John Shevlin, who used to work at the Body Shop. He was found to have used his position to log into...
[July 1, 2008, 15:49]
Questions over pub Wi-Fi case remain unanswered
Blog A week and a half ago, we reported that a pub landlord somewhere in the UK had, sometime this summer, been fined £8k because someone had downloaded copyrighted content over their open Wi-Fi network. As we made clear at the time, the story was based...
[December 9, 2009, 17:19]
Scottish chips go down badly with Apple
Blog Which doesn't explain much about Wolfson Microelectronics plc, which has been caught breaking company rules by the Financial Services Authority and fined £140k for its mischief. It's a cliche but nonetheless true that many Scotsmen are fonder of...
[January 20, 2009, 12:24]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog He was fined $12.8m for his spammish activities, but was unaccountably absent from proceedings. Wednesday 16/8/2006 Much fun in Massachusetts, where AOL is once again in the news over its search methods.
[August 18, 2006, 20:35]
Law expert issues warning to open Wi-Fi operators
Blog On Friday, ZDNet UK reported how, according to the managing director of hotspot firm The Cloud, a pub was fined £8,000 this summer for copyright infringement, due to downloads made over the pub's open Wi-Fi hotspot.
[November 28, 2009, 11:11]
Radiohead haven't killed the record companies just yet
Blog And by god you have to hate them when you read stories about the Minnesota women who was fined $220,000 for sharing 24 songs on Kazaa. Just as Britney Spears has become the tabloids' whipping-boy (girl?
[October 9, 2007, 19:26]
New Zealand to outlaw spam
Blog In the UK, companies can be fined up to £5000 for spamming -- however, at the time of writing the Information Commissioner's Office had not prosecuted any UK spammers. New Zealand is to pass a law to make spamming illegal, according to NZ news site...
[August 28, 2007, 17:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Nonetheless, AiboPet remains a criminal, and he could go to jail for years or be fined huge sums of money -- a problem which is going to get worse, rather than better, as more and more complex systems with proprietary encryption come onto the...
[January 25, 2002, 15:56]
