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Government appoints battery law enforcer
News However, the agency has not made any prosecutions since the EU's RoHS regulations were enacted into UK law in 2008. Although the NWML is technically the right body to oversee environmental law surrounding batteries as it already takes care of...
[February 3, 2009, 15:43]
Windows Vista Helps Law Firm Improve Desktop Management and User Satisfaction
White Papers Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP is a leading national law firm serving domestic and international clients in corporate law, corporate restructuring, government relations, and other legal services. New York, Milwaukee, Albany, and Chicago, and employs...
[February 17, 2007, 0:00]
E-crime laws failing, say top experts
News Leading government figures and senior law enforcement officers think cybercrime legislation is ineffectual and unenforceable, according to a report published on Wednesday by Websense, a security vendor.
[April 12, 2006, 17:15]
IT industry: Data retention mess needs fixing
News But he added that there was a clear need "to distinguish between demands for information from government, regulators and law enforcement and what they actually need to do their jobs". Nowhere are the politics more confused than when it comes to the...
[October 20, 2006, 12:50]
US government wants a few good hackers
News Including members of law enforcement, a congressman and security experts, the panel illuminated the problems the government has in securing systems and appealed to hackers not to make it any harder -- both to help the government and to help...
[July 16, 2001, 15:47]
MPs demand tougher data-breach sanctions
News A group of MPs wants to see tougher sanctions for government bodies that commit serious breaches of data-protection law. Under current law, neither government departments nor agencies can be held criminally responsible for data-protection breaches.
[January 3, 2008, 13:45]
Greek government backs down on gaming
News Following widespread coverage and criticism of the new law, the government has issued guidelines to police making it clear that only games related to gambling are covered by the law. The law had threatened to criminalise ordinary people and...
[September 25, 2002, 11:05]
UK Government suffers data retention blow
News The UK government is proposing that ISPs and phone companies retain their customers' telecoms traffic data for up to two years and give law enforcement agencies access to that data -- if needed -- in a criminal investigation.
[September 17, 2002, 12:30]
Chipmakers stop Wi-Fi sales to China
News The Chinese government has passed a law stating that, starting from 1 June, all Wi-Fi chips sold must comply with the Wired Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI) standard. Earlier this month, US Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans...
[March 11, 2004, 13:30]
Crypto controls to cost U.S. citizens $7.7bn
News Industry and law enforcement officials have been at odds over encryption for years, with the industry wanting strict U.S.export limits lifted and the FBI favouring stricter controls at home and abroad.
[June 11, 1998, 14:23]
UK government in breach of European employment law
News The European Court of Justice has ruled that the UK government has broken the law in denying freelance workers and short term workers the right to four weeks paid annual leave. In a groundbreaking decision that will now land the government back in...
[June 26, 2001, 14:17]
Parliament 'didn't understand RIP Act'
News Lord Phillips of Sudbury told a Parliamentary meeting in London on Wednesday that neither backbenchers nor government ministers fully grasped the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which was passed into law in 2000.
[November 6, 2003, 16:35]
BCS raps government data-sharing plans
News However, the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday rejected suggestions that data protection law, and the rule of law, would be undermined by its proposals. A highly respected group of technology experts has hit out at proposed changes to UK data law...
[February 18, 2009, 14:18]
Snooping laws caught in catch-22
News ISPs want the government to plug a loophole in the law that lets government agencies demand access to customer data -- and which could leave ISPs out of pocket and open to prosecution. In what was pitched as a measure to help law enforcement...
[December 13, 2002, 15:54]
Homeland Security bill becomes US law
News The authors of the massive law, which totals about 500 pages, envision a far greater role for the government when it comes to making sure operating systems, hardware and the Internet are secure. The final law prohibits the Justice Department's...
[November 26, 2002, 11:41]
Attacks silence privacy concerns
News Law-enforcement agencies in recent months have found themselves on the defensive over wiretapping and other intelligence-gathering technology, with Congress and the courts increasingly backing demands for greater accountability and restraint.
[September 18, 2001, 9:16]
Lawsuit targets Microsoft and the DoJ
News A nonprofit antitrust group filed a lawsuit on Thursday alleging the Justice Department and Microsoft violated federal law by not properly disclosing all information and communications related to settlement negotiations.
[January 25, 2002, 9:46]
Canada's ISPs may get 'spy' role
News The Canadian government, including the Department of Justice and Industry Canada, wrote the 21-page blueprint as a near-final step in a process that seeks to give law enforcement agents more authority to conduct electronic surveillance.
[August 28, 2002, 13:12]
Government to forge new cybercrime policies
News The government has pledged to meet with law enforcers to forge new policies on tackling cybercrime. A spokesman for the Home Office said: "No decision has been taken on the formation of an e-crime unit, but we will be considering how we take an...
[March 27, 2008, 7:35]
Abandon data retention plans, urge privacy groups
News These records, the UK government says, will be available to UK law enforcement agencies. Human rights group Privacy International (PI) is concerned that several pieces of legislation currently being considered by Parliament will allow law...
[November 4, 2003, 16:35]
