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Government ignores Web opposition over ID cards
Talkback ID cards will not solve anything, only create problems and cost us more money to buy, and make, and implement.the policing costs will double due to checking the cards, more people will be arrested for not having cards.more money.pretty lame.
[November 14, 2003, 9:21]
Crime In Focus : A paper examining pitfalls in public crime mapping
White Papers This was one of a number of pledges made in a green paper aimed to improve policing and its appreciation by the public, business, the media and other public service agencies1. In July 2008, UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith pledged that interactive...
[August 20, 2009, 0:00]
False clicks hurt advertisers
News This led companies to develop policing technologies touted as antidotes to the problem. Many policing technologies can counter click fraud by analysing Web traffic logs or surfing behaviour. The practice, known as "click fraud," began in the early...
[July 19, 2004, 14:35]
Gov't open-source guidelines ignored, says Ingres
News The UK has one of the best-written policies out there — the problem is policing it," Shine said. The public sector is ignoring government guidelines on procuring open-source software, according to open-source database company Ingres.
[September 25, 2009, 16:28]
Exclusive: Government will not prioritise paedophile cases
News At the Internet Watch Foundation's (IWF) first parliamentary meeting in the House of Lords in January, Home Office minister Lord Bassam said policing of Internet paedophiles would be a "top priority" for the special unit.
[February 12, 2001, 11:52]
I quite agree
Talkback No thank you to private policing! Why do the government and the relevant authorities not target the bad guy's instead of this broad brush philosophy which affects all of us detrimentally, but does little to curb the real problems and bring the bad...
[July 17, 2008, 18:50]
Europe speeds up electronic ID plans
Talkback Rather than stricter policing and control policies, why not try to find out what the ailments of the global community are, and work at mending them? One gets the feeling, after reading this article, that societies in North America are going...
[April 13, 2004, 0:19]
National anti-fraud centre due next year
News By identifying patterns of fraudulent activity and linking disparate cases the centre would set priorities for fraud policing, focus major fraud investigations and stop information from slipping through the gaps between different agencies.
[April 29, 2008, 9:22]
Windows XP SP2 more secure? Not so fast
Talkback Microsoft's updated firewall is good, but if you are concerned about policing outgoing data, turn it off and use a third party product. Two firewalls are better than one? That's a strange statement, offered with no supporting explanation.
[August 17, 2004, 14:59]
MS Palladium: A must or a menace?
News For example, the technology could be used as a policing mechanism that bars people from material stored on their own computers if they have not met licensing and other requirements. At the USENIX Security Conference held in San Francisco recently...
[November 8, 2002, 8:05]
FBI proposes international biometrics database
News The UK's National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) said it was aware of the proposal and that any such system could be linked into existing law-enforcement databases such as Ident1, the UK repository of more than seven million pieces of...
[January 16, 2008, 7:31]
How much could ISPs really do?
Talkback It sounds possible in theory, but the costs of policing networks could be enormous - which I guess they would have to pass onto the consumer - so we'd have to pay more for a restricted service - great.
[October 25, 2007, 15:10]
NSPCC calls for better online crime reporting
News UK policing is getting good at arresting people for possessing and distributing child abuse images from the Internet," said NSPCC Internet policy advisor Chris Atkinson. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is...
[December 2, 2004, 12:15]
Microsoft offers WGA workaround
Talkback I have other concerns about the developping Big Brother situation and the part played by unaccountable and unelected commercial organisations in shaping, controlling and policing our future. I'm still not happy.
[June 28, 2006, 12:38]
Microsoft: 'Harden your environment'
News Businesses could not rely on international policing or law alone to protect their intellectual property, Gibson told the MIS WebSec Conference in London on Wednesday. The chief security advisor for Microsoft UK, Former FBI agent Ed Gibson, on...
[March 30, 2006, 11:35]
Welcome to your new job...in HR
News The downside is the possibility of taking on tasks that business or line managers used to handle, such as policing email/Internet policies, attending and hosting sales meetings, training, dealing with infrastructure and security issues, and...
[November 22, 2002, 11:26]
Ofcom seeks your views on VoIP
Talkback Ofcom can not supervise the echolink thru pc alone anyhow since they have no way of policing this (thank god! I suggest that ofcom keeps right out of the voip if it concerns radio amatuers and say for example echolink.Since echolink can either be...
[May 8, 2006, 15:28]
Tories attack Labour surveillance schemes
News Much of Grieve's speech concerned policing. Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, has criticised the ID-card scheme, among other government projects, in his speech at the Conservative conference.
[October 1, 2008, 13:18]
Police to get mobile fingerprint scanners
News Speaking at Biometrics Exhibition and Conference 2008 on Tuesday, Geoff Whitaker, chief technology officer of biometrics at the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), said other biometrics, such as facial scans and the ability to access mug...
[October 23, 2008, 9:39]
Microsoft directs chatters to IM
News Microsoft stands to benefit in several ways from the move, for example by reducing expenses related to maintaining and policing free Web chat rooms, and raising the prominence of MSN Messenger in the regions affected: Europe, Asia, Africa and...
[September 26, 2003, 9:00]
