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Raytheon seeks £500m e-Borders payoff

...claim for over half a billion pounds in a letter to the Home Affairs Select Committee (PDF), published on Friday. "We maintain that the purported... Read more

26 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

MPs urge ISPs to take down terrorist material

The Home Affairs Committee has called for an ISP code of conduct 'committing them to removing violent extremist material', although it is unclear whether they mean 'hosting providers' rather than ISPs Read more

6 February, 2012 by David Meyer

MPs: Rioting should not lead to Twitter blocks

...government should not take social networks offline during future civil disturbances, the home affairs select committee has said. Photo credit: Nicobobinus/Flickr Social networks such... Read more

20 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

MPs: Police IT is 'not fit for purpose'

...The home affairs select committee has branded police service IT as "not fit for... Read more

23 September, 2011 by Gill Hitchcock

MPs see little value in scrapped £9m eye scanners

...system would have been better used to pay for more staff, the Home Affairs Select Committee has found. IRIS was introduced in UK airports in... Read more

11 April, 2012 by Jo Best

Blunkett: Use technology to try McKinnon

...to allow McKinnon to stay in the UK, Blunkett told the Commons home affairs select committee on Tuesday. The committee was hearing evidence into the... Read more

30 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft set to pull support of CEOP, says chief

...unlikely that they will continue philanthropic support of CEOP," Gamble told the Home Affairs Select Committee. Gamble, a child exploitation expert, resigned as CEOP chief... Read more

12 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

MPs urge Nasa hacker clemency

...of Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon. Keith Vaz, the chair of the the Home Affairs Select Committee, sent a letter to Johnson on Thursday asking him... Read more

12 November, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Committee urges gov't database prudence

...people and hold it only for as long as is necessary, the Home Affairs Select Committee has recommended. The committee says decisions to create new... Read more

9 June, 2008 by Kable

ICO invests in improving IT expertise

...organisation's increasing income to introduce greater technical expertise. Speaking to the Home Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday, Sir Christopher Graham said that the Information... Read more

25 March, 2010 by Kable

Home secretary considers Nasa hacker plea

...the extradition of Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon. On Tuesday Johnson told the Home Affairs Select Committee, an influential parliamentary scrutiny body, that he would be... Read more

11 November, 2009 by Tom Espiner

e-Borders may be illegal, select committee warns

Government plans to collect data on all travellers coming to the UK could be illegal under EU law, according to the Commons Home Affairs Committee Read more

21 December, 2009 by Nick Heath

EU data laws force e-Borders compromise

...receives information on those travelling to Britain A report from Parliament's Home Affairs Select Committee reveals that the European Commission has told the UK... Read more

8 April, 2010 by Kable

DNA pioneer 'deeply worried' by database policy

...National DNA Database. He was providing evidence to the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee in a session on the database on 3 February... Read more

4 February, 2010 by Kable

e-Borders tracking half of all passengers through UK

...December 2010. The project recently hit a serious obstacle when the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee said it appears to be in breach of European... Read more

20 January, 2010 by Kable

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