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Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002: What Companies Should Be Doing Now
White Papers It also covers descriptions of sections 302 & 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This webcast gives an overview and observations on the final SEC rules regarding auditor independence.
[March 29, 2005, 0:00]
Consolidating The House's Homeland Security Efforts: The Time To Act Is Now
White Papers At present, 79 committees continue to claim jurisdiction over the Department, leading to duplicative and wasteful efforts in Congress and at the Department. Infinite referrals prevent the enactment of important legislation and constant reporting...
[January 28, 2005, 2:00]
Lords Chides Government Over Internet Security
News The government must act now or risk losing public confidence in the security of the internet, an influential House of Lords committee has found. Governments and legislators are not in position to prescribe the security precautions that should be...
[August 10, 2007, 0:01]
Computer Recording And Monitoring Technology Increases Productivity
White Papers The Federal Trade Commission's Safeguards Rules, the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) now require that companies subject to these rules and regulations establish a comprehensive...
[September 27, 2005, 3:00]
E-commerce Bill Grows Up To Be An Act
News The Electronic Communications Act -- as it is now formally known -- has had a chequered history. E-commerce minister Patricia Hewitt explains why the Act is so important. These issues are now being debated in the equally controversial RIP...
[May 26, 2000, 8:29]
Rural Broadband Pilot To Be Extended
News Following the success of the ACT NOW (Access for Cornwall through Telecommunications to New Opportunities Worldwide) initiative launched formally in late April, BT said it is working with partners to establish a further seven similar projects in...
[June 27, 2002, 14:58]
FoI Opens Up Intelligence Files
News Information contained in more than 50,000 government files previously closed for 30 years is now available at the National Archives, with selected details accessible online following the start of the Freedom of Information Act.
[January 5, 2005, 14:21]
UK Web Sites Face New Accessibility Rules
News Until now there has been ambiguity over the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, because the wording of the Act does not specifically mention Web services. This is a provision of a service and is subject to the Act.
[February 27, 2002, 17:22]
EBay Acts Over Privacy Fears
News If they wish to act now, people can remove their accounts by typing "close my account" into the search function and following the resulting instructions, according to the eBay spokeswoman. The complaint by Privacy International included a claim...
[September 27, 2006, 16:40]
Best Practices For Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Enforcing IT Controls With Identity And Web Services Management
White Papers To help you gain a better understanding of the issues surrounding Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, including the importance of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and how to comply with it, understanding the required controls and why are they critical...
[December 16, 2004, 23:00]
Government To Force Handover Of Encryption Keys
News Now, more than five years after the original act was passed, the Home Office is seeking to exercise the powers within Part Three of RIPA. The powers are contained within Part 3 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA).
[May 18, 2006, 12:10]
News Burst: Human Rights Act Protects Workplace Privacy
News The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act that enables an employer to legally monitor their staff's suspected misuse of the Internet now seems likely to violate the human right to privacy within the workplace.
[October 3, 2000, 10:38]
Campaigner Fights On For BT-Phorm Prosecution
News Hanff claims the interception of data packets to serve targeted ads contravened the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). The campaigner had previously handed a file to City of London police, asserting that in conducting the trials, BT had...
[October 15, 2008, 15:01]
Mobile Barcodes Permit Conference Entry
News Even with the Spam Act tightening its grip on SMS marketing methods, Grill says they are making sure the system doesn’t go against the Act. Visitors to trade exhibitions can now simply present an SMS-delivered barcode on their mobile phones to gain...
[April 19, 2004, 10:45]
Copyright Act Gags Programmers
News Now the only text on the site, "Censored by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act," links to a DMCA protest site, Anti-DMCA.org. Two well-known computer security experts pulled down their works from the Internet this week for fear of being...
[September 7, 2001, 9:04]
Industry Group Demands Fix For 'weak' Cybercrime Laws
News We want to see the Computer Misuse Act and the privacy and electronic communications legislation combined into a single effective piece of legislation," said Kimber. The government is currently reviewing the Computer Misuse Act, which was brought...
[July 5, 2004, 17:15]
Roaming Charges To Be Cut At Last
News The Commission hopes further regulation will not be necessary in three years' time, but Reding said the EU will act if necessary: "I hope that operators now understand the EU's ability to act. We hope we've now seen the last of excessive roaming...
[June 27, 2007, 8:32]
Email Interception Law Faces More Delays
News A key part of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) that will force ISPs to store Internet traffic including Web addresses visited and emails is facing a major delay. According to the Home Office Web site, the government had hoped to...
[March 1, 2002, 14:48]
Dot-coms Come Under Data Protection Scrutiny
News The Office of the Information Commissioner has launched an investigation into the compliance of British Web sites with the Data Protection Act 1998. With the passing of the deadline, last October, for companies to comply with the Act, the balance...
[January 9, 2002, 13:13]
Ofcom Accuses BT Over Broadband Pricing
News Ofcom is now proposing to rule that BT has infringed Section 18 of the Competition Act 1998 and Article 82 of the EC Treaty "in relation to the company's residential broadband pricing". It's understood that the documents supplied to Ofcom by BT...
[September 1, 2004, 14:25]
