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Are social networks legally required to implement user banning/suspension funcionality?
Moderation tools are needed to prevent users from distributing illegal material.
There are laws prohibiting the possession amd distribution of illegal material like child pornography. If a website ...
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Is it illegal to share a recording of someone else's private conversation?
What do you mean by “private”?
If you mean a conversation that the participants did not want overhead but was conducted in a way that allowed others to overhear, then that is not illegal.
If you mean ...
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Is it legal for employer to make getting paid for work contingent on completion of certain tasks?
TD1 is an Obligation under tax law
Tax law requires employers to provide quite some information to the tax authorities. By law, the company has to have at least SIN and TD1. Without having the proper ...
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Is it legal for employer to make getting paid for work contingent on completion of certain tasks?
Giving you a job may depend on the right paperwork. As soon as you actually work, if they have been violating any rules then that is done. They still have to pay you. Plus there are no “tax reasons”, ...
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Is it illegal to share a recording of someone else's private conversation?
Yes, it is illegal.
18 U.S.C. § 2511 states:
(1)Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter any person who—
(c)intentionally discloses, or endeavors to disclose, to any other person the ...
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Is it illegal to share a recording of someone else's private conversation?
Is it illegal to share someone else's private conversation?
Not as a general rule.
Can a private conversation that has been recorded without the
knowledge of any involved in the conversation. Then ...
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Are social networks legally required to implement user banning/suspension funcionality?
are social networks that don't allow users to be suspended/banned
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Yes.
Or they are required to implement this feature?
No. There is no laws of which I am aware that are currently in force ...
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Is it legal to photograph a nosy neighbour?
united-kingdom
Imagine a range of possible actions, from
(A) you doing nothing else with regard to your neighbour but on one occasion taking one photograph of him staring over your fence, to
(Z) you ...
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Is it legal to discriminate on marital status for car insurance/pensions etc.?
The UK is no longer an EU member and is able to depart from EU Directives (although in this case that hasn't happened, yet).
The Act here is UK law, the Equality Act 2010
The particular areas to ...
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Is it legal to discriminate on marital status for car insurance/pensions etc.?
I assume [the ECJ ruling] is based on discrimination law, of which gender is only one of a list of protected characteristics.
This is incorrect. The ECJ does not interpret or enforce UK national law, ...
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Is it legal to photograph a nosy neighbour?
There are a few laws that may be relevant:
the tort of invasion of privacy relates to Article 8 of the HRA https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/42/schedule/1/part/I/chapter/7
what this means is ...
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Is it legal to photograph a nosy neighbour?
As a rule of thumb, if the neighbour can reasonably expect to be seen by whoever is looking in his direction from your property, you can film him. For video only, CCTV or handheld does not matter. ...
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