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ZDNet UK News interviews e-Minister Patricia Hewitt

After months of chasing, ZDNet has finally been given an interview with government e-Minister Patricia Hewitt. Jane Wakefield, will be asking the questions you want answered Read more

18 February, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

Labour wins tech policy poll

...the top of the political agenda and the response to the revised e-communications bill was generally favourable. However, government determination to push through the... Read more

7 June, 2001 by Jane Wakefield

A Year Ago: Big Brother plans pushed through Parliament

...the widely-criticised Interception of Communications Act (IOCA) and parts of the e-communications bill. Part three of the e-communications bill forces suspects to... Read more

17 November, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

Eye2Eye: ZDNet interviews the e-Minister, Part 1

...policy so the strategy is about getting the market framework right. The e-communications bill is now on track. It is about getting regulation right... Read more

21 February, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

Jane Wakefield: Bullies, teenagers and Net giants

Last week wasn't great for all those would-be Net shoppers as naughty teenagers got away with murder Read more

14 February, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

New surveillance bill comes under fire

...is totally unworkable and unjust: "The DTI jettisoned decryption powers from its e-Communications Bill last year because it did not believe that a law... Read more

10 February, 2000 by Will Knight

Jane Wakefield: E-ambassador, you are spoiling us

Blair and Allan. Put your trust in these two giants of the e-age and you're sure to be just hunky dory. Jane Wakefield explains, as only she can... Read more

21 January, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

Jane Wakefield - ISPs of the world unite!

...are going? Come back immediately, you must be REGULATED." And while the e-communications bill has been transformed from a dirty urchin into a shiny... Read more

19 November, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

Experts slam RIP bill on encryption

...encryption. The role of legally defining encryption was inherited from the proposed E-communications Bill, published Friday. Lawyer and privacy campaigner Nicholas Bohm says RIP... Read more

19 November, 1999 by Will Knight

Government defends new cyber-snooping powers

...up its stance. On the day the government published its long-awaited E-communications Bill (formerly the E-Commerce Bill), Home Office minister Charles Clarke... Read more

19 November, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

News Burst: Big Brother legislation pushed through

...the widely-criticised Interception of Communications Act (IOCA) and parts of the e-communications bill. They can see you... Read about how and why in... Read more

17 November, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

Big Brother plans pushed through Parliament

...the widely-criticised Interception of Communications Act (IOCA) and parts of the e-communications bill. Part three of the e-communications bill forces suspects to... Read more

17 November, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

News Burst: E-commerce, surveillance in Queen's Speech

...its plans for the Internet and e-commerce Wednesday with the controversial e-communications bill, one of 28 bills making an appearance in the Queen... Read more

17 November, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

Government accused of hidden e-commerce agenda

...latest Select Committee on Trade and Industry report on the re-named e-communications bill, is far kinder on government than the last report. In... Read more

4 November, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

Surveillance: A special report

...overview, with links to the stories, read on: An overview: Via the e-communications bill -- formerly the e-commerce bill -- and the Interception of Communications... Read more

30 September, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

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