Mr Walley said many hyper local site operators were talking about producing a code of practice and conduct to help them operate on a more professional basis.

BBC: The fight for a right to report

National Savings will soon be producing its own code, but at present say its customers already have more rights than those of the American banks.

BBC: Banks come under rights spotlight

That fact helps explain why, as the NPC moves toward modernizing, clarifying, and tightening the criminal code, it is in many ways producing a much more complex set of laws.

CNN: No Comfort for Criminals

Meanwhile, Britain's health secretary announced Friday that his country's Health Protection Agency had sequenced the full genetic code of the H1N1 virus, the first step in producing a European prototype of a swine flu vaccine.

CNN: WHO reports big jump in swine flu cases