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'DMCA on steroids' heads for Euro Parliament
News Civil liberties group the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure said the law, in its current form, would hand too much power to large rights holders and create a hostile environment for smaller companies.
[February 19, 2004, 20:39]
Bandwidth talk turns off broadband late adopters
News Up to 70 percent of the cost of rolling out broadband is the civil infrastructure -- such as digging trenches, building ducts and poles. To address the coverage issue, the BSG wants regional authorities to coordinate the rollout of broadband...
[November 20, 2002, 16:21]
Curbs on Galileo keep planes safe
News A private-public infrastructure project, the consortium behind Galileo will offer commercial and civil users service guarantees for a fee. Unlike the existing GPS, which was set-up and maintained by US military authorities before being handed over...
[August 5, 2003, 11:20]
Surveillance 2: Should we be our own coppers?
News Companies would have to conform to a standard, then give people a direct civil right of action for any invasions of privacy that can be documented, and give them the right to correct the files. Give them notice, give them correction and give them a...
[February 25, 2000, 9:28]
MoD to stick with IE6 despite security concerns
News Many civil servants use web browsers as a tool of their trade," he told GC News. Why civil servants should not be given the choice to use Firefox or Chrome or Safari is beyond me. The MoD is implementing a secure desktop computing service for 300...
[July 24, 2009, 14:57]
Coding in corporate responsibility
News What if civil engineers built bridges the way developers build software? You once served as an officer in the US Navy Civil Engineer Corps, where you earned the Navy Achievement Medal. IT, as an infrastructure, needs to be as safe and secure as a...
[May 16, 2005, 11:20]
How CIOs can help fight cyberterror
News This book, Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber-Terrorism, details how cyberterrorism could occur, the global and financial implications, and the effect it could have on privacy and civil liberties.
[July 24, 2003, 14:44]
US homeland security to police the Net
News But privacy advocates and civil libertarians remain worried about the negative consequences of such a sweeping reorganisation of law enforcement functions with little oversight. Creates a privacy representative and a civil liberties officer to...
[November 21, 2002, 11:55]
EU anti-piracy directive heads for final vote
News A proposed European Union law strengthening enforcement capabilities against intellectual-property violations has been approved by the European Parliament's judicial affairs committee (JURI), paving the way for a fast-track vote next month...
[February 26, 2004, 11:05]
Bush beefs up cybercrime spending
News About $35m of that is earmarked for the Terrorist Threat Integration Centre -- a somewhat amorphous organisation designed to share information with the CIA that has alarmed civil libertarians. Cyberspace security is a key element of infrastructure...
[February 3, 2004, 9:10]
E-envoy calls for end to broadband deadlock
News Pinder, who coordinates the e-business efforts of government ministers and the civil service, said that the rollout of broadband represents a chicken-and-egg situation in which users are reluctant to sign up because of high fees, while providers...
[June 26, 2001, 15:55]
Obama to appoint US cybersecurity co-ordinator
News The report also goes out of its way to recognise the civil liberties concerns that could arise by a greater focus on private networks: the word 'privacy' appears no fewer than 69 times in the document.
[June 1, 2009, 14:46]
International surveillance plan slammed
News Civil liberties groups from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID in more than one billion passports worldwide.
[April 2, 2004, 15:50]
Europe sets state-aid rules for broadband rollouts
News Before granting state aid, public authorities should therefore consider whether they can promote private investments with other means, for instance by co-ordinating civil works and streamlining administrative procedures.
[September 18, 2009, 13:15]
FBI urges greater co-operation from US tech firms
News Philip Lago, deputy executive secretary at the CIA, said the "civil libertarians just went crazy". Created in 1996, InfraGard is an information-sharing alliance between the FBI, the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre, universities...
[September 6, 2002, 9:48]
New Millennium body for the capital
News If the Inland Revenue can't collect taxes, benefits won't be paid and within 4 weeks we could have civil unrest" she said. The Infrastructure committee set up by Action 2000 will issue a report on preparedness in five key areas -- transport...
[December 7, 1998, 15:08]
US cyber spies want more rights to snoop on foreigners
News It proposes a number of key changes that have been criticised by civil liberties groups. The proposal has also drawn pointed criticism from civil liberties groups, which have called the so-called compromise with the Bush administration a "sham" and...
[July 27, 2006, 12:05]
U.S. backs off private monitoring
News This was little comfort to civil libertarians and other high-tech industry watchers, who blasted the plan as an Orwellian attack on privacy. I think this is a very frightening proposal," said Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the American...
[July 29, 1999, 10:53]
Interim Digital Britain report: First impressions
Blog By the time the final Digital Britain Report is published the Government will have explored with interested parties the potential for a Rights Agency to bring industry together to agree how to provide incentives for legal use of copyright material...
[January 29, 2009, 12:03]
Echelon: Is anyone bothered?
News The parties involved have nothing to say unless, like the Green party, they are formed by civil rights activists. ZDNet: The main peace and civil rights movements have fallen apart on this. Within the United States, however, they recently had to...
[June 30, 2000, 15:25]
