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Fifty days to change the world
Leader The state's side of the equation is to act as gatekeeper, deciding what is and isn't worthy of protection before enforcing both the restrictions and the freedoms that follow. With patents, the state is failing to follow its own rules on what makes...
[March 2, 2006, 14:50]
Identity theft 'remains hidden'
News And new national legislation, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, would help protect victims once they determined that their identity had been stolen. The Gartner report ups the ante in consumers' battle for protection.
[July 22, 2003, 12:26]
Government tries to keep ID card costs secret
News The ICO considered the complaint under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act and, after reviewing a copy of the report, information commissioner Richard Thomas ruled that the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public...
[July 6, 2006, 16:35]
Companies increasingly monitoring email
Talkback BALANCING ACT For more details kindly see http://perry4law.blogspot.com/2005/05/data-protection-law-in-india.html. The law of privacy has not kept pace with the technological development. It must be noted that the right to freedom of speech and...
[June 9, 2005, 18:54]
Users face prosecution if email is illegal
News Ruth Dickson, Hotline Manager for the Internet Watch Foundation said: "If a person has material containing child pornography they can be charged under the Protection of Children Act. A case, presently under review by the Crown Prosecution Service...
[November 27, 1998, 14:32]
Antipiracy battle moves to hardware Pt II
News The entertainment industry could conceivably act quickly if a hardware solution were to become available, but unanimous agreement remains an elusive goal. The 4C group sparked intense protest by taking their proposal to an industry standards group...
[March 23, 2001, 14:09]
Anti-snooping gurus converge on London
News The International Surveillance by Design conference to be held at the London School of Economics will see an international band of technical and political experts discuss how the average Internet user can fight back against laws like the RIP Act.
[September 19, 2000, 13:19]
Gov't committee launches ISP regulation inquiry
News The committee has called for submissions on five questions surrounding internet provision, including whether internet service providers (ISPs) should be forced to act to deal with some types of internet traffic, such as spam and malware.
[April 23, 2009, 17:05]
Tuesday
Blog With fines of up to $25,000 per act of naughtiness, this could severely impact on the petty cash funds of anyone who's tempted to perform the massively illicit, technologically sophisticated evil of masking out bits of a protected audio CD with...
[August 5, 2002, 11:18]
Computer crime treaty threatens human rights
News Akdeniz says that the treaty would go further than the UK's controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIP) to increase intrusive and unwarranted government surveillance. GILC said in a statement that the draft treaty is, "contrary to...
[October 19, 2000, 7:41]
Phorm appoints Norman Lamont as director
News Finding the right candidate to chair the BSG involves a balancing act of credibility and experience," said Walker. Critics have said that the trials contravened UK privacy and data-protection laws. Phorm, a provider of targeted behavioural...
[December 2, 2008, 17:30]
Flaw threatens major worm attack
News Maiffret and other security researchers worried that this week's Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas will act as a catalyst and spur a malicious hacker to create and release such a worm. An exploit (program) like this is very easy to turn into a...
[July 28, 2003, 8:55]
Sony VAIO PCG-NV109M review
Reviews This looks as though it should act as a scroll wheel, but instead it pops up a rather intrusive applet for launching programs, linking the wheel to various functions within those programs and so on. This is an idiosyncratic system for moving...
[June 28, 2002, 12:55]
Rights groups call for ID tracking laws
News This year, Senator Conrad Burns, R-Mont.introduced the Online Privacy Protection Act of 1999, which will guarantee users some rights when online. This is another example of how technology that allows for the collection and transfer of data is...
[March 9, 1999, 9:46]
Utility computing still a hard sell
News Software usage can be volatile and hard to predict, and coming up with a metering scheme fair to all is a fine balancing act, said David Rowley, vice president of business development for copy protection specialist Macrovision.
[October 20, 2004, 8:50]
FBI leads cyber-vandal hunt
News If convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a first-time offender faces a maximum penalty of five years in jail and a minimum of six months. In the news conference hosted by Reno, Ronald Dick, section chief of the National Infrastructure...
[February 10, 2000, 8:57]
Powergen's lax security condemned
News This is a breach of a principle of the [Data Protection] act. The Data Protection Registrar is concerned about the situation. We would expect any data collector to provide adequate security," says compliance manger Lorraine Godkin.
[July 19, 2000, 9:21]
Gov't defends data-sharing policy
News The report adds that the National Identity Register will mostly be used to authenticate individuals — confirming they are who they say they are — after they are enrolled, adding: "Only in very limited circumstances will identification searches be...
[July 24, 2008, 11:38]
Viviane Reding nominated for internet villain award
News Simon Watkin, the public face of the Home Office's work on the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act, is one of the nominees. Annie Mullins, Vodafone: "For her work with the Home Office Task Force on Protection of Children on...
[January 4, 2007, 15:59]
Legal conundrums give IT staff the blues
News Colao highlighted the European Data Protection Directive as an example of legislation that is posing particular challenges for businesses. He said that the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts were causing a conflict of interest in firms.
[November 4, 2004, 9:33]
