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• Europe's 'SOPA': How ACTA would affect you: FAQ

  With SOPA and PIPA shelved, ACTA was somewhat ignored. Don’t know what ACTA is? Don’t worry: you weren’t meant to. In this lengthy FAQ guide, here is what you need to know.

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• Europe offers Google settlement option in antitrust case

  By Zack Whittaker | May 21, 2012, 3:54am PDT

  After months of dilly-dallying and thumb-twiddling, European competition regulators said Google can remedy its actions and settle to prevent a fully-fledged antitrust investigation.

• London police ‘hack’ suspects’ phones: A major blow to human rights

  By Zack Whittaker | May 18, 2012, 10:53am PDT

  London’s police service will soon be allowed to ‘hack’ into phones of suspected criminals. This criminologist examines how dangerous this move is for ordinary citizens.

• UK ISPs must block The Pirate Bay by May 30

  By Zack Whittaker | May 18, 2012, 5:01am PDT

  Two of the five U.K. ISPs have already enacted site-blocking to prevent access to The Pirate Bay. More than a quarter of the U.K. population will see the site blocked by May 30.

• UK government staff caught snooping on citizen data

  By Zack Whittaker | May 17, 2012, 2:37pm PDT

  What a surprise: the U.K. government was forced to reveal under Freedom of Information laws more than 1,000 civil servants have ’snooped’ on British citizens’ private data.

• UK government keeps RIM in play with BlackBerry 7 security rating

  By Zack Whittaker | May 17, 2012, 6:21am PDT

  RIM is holding on to the niche government market by certifying BlackBerry 7 as fit for government use, while Apple and Google have yet to step up to the mark.

• News to know: Facebook data, UK porn filter, Pirate Bay block, ACTA, Data roaming

  By Zack Whittaker | May 14, 2012, 3:08am PDT

  News to know — May 7-13: A look back at the news from London, the UK and wider Europe, on all the bits that were missed during the week’s coverage.

• Apple gives in: iPad 3 drops ‘4G’ tag to avoid lawsuits

  By Zack Whittaker | May 12, 2012, 4:48pm PDT

  Apple gives in to regulatory pressure by removing any mention of “4G” from its websites, after hundreds of complaints that the iPad 3 will not connect to high-speed networks.

• Queen’s speech unveils UK’s ‘Patriot Act’ Web monitoring plan

  By Zack Whittaker | May 9, 2012, 4:06am PDT

  The Queen has officially lifted the lid on plans for the British government to monitor all U.K. Web, email and phone traffic.

• UK iGovernment: Parliament dishes out 650 iPads to MPs

  By Zack Whittaker | May 3, 2012, 10:23am PDT

  The U.K. Parliament will spend upwards of $700,000 on iPads for elected politicians. But the additional charges, from apps to data, may end up costing the British public even more.

• UK’s SOCA website taken offline in DDoS attack

  By Zack Whittaker | May 3, 2012, 5:49am PDT

  The UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency was pulled on Wednesday after a DDoS attack. Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.