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The Czech office for the protection of personal data, found that although Ryneš had been trying to expose the perpetrators of a crime, he had infringed data-protection rules and issued him with a fine.
She said: "It's important to remember that vetting itself needs to be managed in a way that doesn't infringe data protection laws.
LUXEMBOURG — EBay may be held liable for trademark breaches on its auction site if it has knowledge of the infringing data, the European Union's highest court said Tuesday in a dispute involving the cosmetics maker L'Oréal.
The ruling means that Weltimmo could be liable for the 10m Hungarian forint (£23,650) fine levied by the Hungarian authority over the passing of user information to debt collection agencies, which was found to infringe Hungarian data protection laws.
Now add another candidate: three mathematicians at Brown University have capped six years of research with a patent for an encryption code they say will make it impractical -- if not impossible -- to infringe copyrighted data like digital music.
Samsung claims that Apple has infringed on its patented data-transmission technology.
Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union, Privacy International and Liberty all argue that GCHQ's mass collection of data infringes European law.
As the New York Times reported, the court "made it clear that American intelligence agencies had almost unfettered access to the data, infringing on Europeans' rights to privacy".
Eight of the 14 lawsuits are against banks, which Intellectual Ventures says infringed on patents that cover data encryption techniques, firewall protection systems or digital imaging.
One state in northern Germany said last month that "Like" buttons infringed on German and European data protection laws, and ordered local site owners to remove the buttons by the end of this month or face fines of as much as 50,000 euros.
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