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EC Calls For Concerted Fight Against Spam
News It is time to turn the repeated political concern about spam into concrete actions to fight spam," said Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media. In the UK, the Information Commissioner — which must enforce the directive — has...
[November 28, 2006, 16:31]
Thinktank: Phorm A 'green Light For Lawbreaking'
News A prominent IT thinktank has criticised the Information Commissioner's Office for apparently giving its approval to an internet-advertising system that may be illegal. The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) said on Sunday that it...
[April 7, 2008, 17:04]
Virtual Privacy Centre Started In Germany
News Each federal state has to name a commissioner for data protection, who has to watch the activities of governments and companies. The aim is to connect data protection activities all over the world. In comparison to Britain and the US, Germany has...
[December 11, 2000, 10:29]
Grid Computing 'vital To Europe's Future'
News In a speech on Tuesday, Viviane Reding, the EC's Commissioner for Information Society, said grids will be a "crucial enabling technology in achieving the productivity and growth challenges". The European Commission (EC) has announced that grid...
[June 1, 2005, 12:55]
'Deceptive' Patent Lobbying Sparks Calls For Transparency
News She called for anti-fraud commissioner Siim Kallas, who recently launched the European Transparency Initiative, to investigate the activities of patent lobby groups. We call upon the commissioner for administrative affairs, Siim Kallas, to...
[July 11, 2005, 14:15]
Echelon: Is Anyone Bothered?
News After the STOA-report on Echelon activities was made public, Ex-EU-commissioner Martin Bangemann stated that if protests took place against surveillance activities, the relationship between Europe and the United States would be badly damaged -- a...
[June 30, 2000, 15:25]
MPs Demand Tougher Data-breach Sanctions
News A report published on 3 January, 2008 by the Commons Justice Committee also calls for new reporting requirements under the Data Protection Act (DPA), as well as greater enforcement powers and improved funding for the Information Commissioner's...
[January 3, 2008, 13:45]
EU Charter May Outlaw Routine Spying
News The decision to set up the temporary committee is a disappointment said a spokesman for Commissioner Vitorino, European Commissioner in charge of Justice and Home affairs. Countries including the USA would be asked to end "all forms of systematic...
[April 14, 2000, 12:23]
Europe Moves Away From Cookie Clampdown
News The UK's Information Commissioner takes a different line. We're not saying that all cookies are bad, or that all cookies raise privacy issues," David Smith, assistant information commissioner at the Office of the Information Commissioner, told...
[April 18, 2002, 16:23]
Sun After MS Trade Secrets, Says MS
News The commissioner in charge of competition, Mario Monti, sent Microsoft Thursday a "statement of objections.for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the market for personal computer operating systems software by leveraging this power into the...
[August 3, 2000, 16:27]
Dot-coms Come Under Data Protection Scrutiny
News All organisations will also be asked if they have notified the information commissioner of their processing activities. The Office of the Information Commissioner has launched an investigation into the compliance of British Web sites with the Data...
[January 9, 2002, 13:13]
Phorm Attacks Critics Over 'illegality' Claims
News On Tuesday the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued a statement on Phorm's activities, in which it said any allegations of RIPA non-compliance were a matter for the Home Office, rather than the ICO.
[April 10, 2008, 12:30]
Police Raid Software Pirates
News They rented the vehicles to elude detection," Deputy Assistant Commissioner Ang Hak Seng, who is deputy director of the CID, said. Police had been monitoring the activities of the syndicates over three months, after raids in town had driven the...
[October 15, 2001, 16:59]
ID Card Proposal 'falls Short Of Data Laws'
News The UK's Information Commissioner believes the government's proposals for a national entitlement card are so widely drawn that "it is impossible to conclude that the necessary privacy and data protection safeguards will be in place.
[February 13, 2003, 15:21]
Take Account Of Data Abuse
Leader PI has managed to get the UK's Information Commissioner to take a look at this issue, but given his lack of success fighting spam we're not confident of immediate action. Share trading, social networking and shopping are all popular online...
[September 1, 2006, 15:40]
Photos: Famous Fraudster Hits Out At ID Cards
News Not to mention that the scheme will have to be accredited to the highest standards by HM Government's security advisers, and that an independent National Identity Scheme commissioner will be appointed to oversee the operation of the scheme," a...
[October 25, 2007, 13:25]
EU Plays Catch-up With US At Dot Com Summit
News Erkki Liikanen, the European Commissioner responsible for enterprise and information society, said the real e-commerce revolution is in the business-to-business markets. European Commissioners have expressed concern that although the EU now has as...
[March 22, 2001, 14:04]
Monti To Microsoft: Guilty As Charged
News Today, Mario Monti, the European Competition Commissioner, issued his ruling in the long-running case against Microsoft, fining the American software giant $613.4m (€497m), the heaviest punishment in any European competition case to date.
[March 24, 2004, 10:25]
Business Should 'use Privacy Laws, Not Abuse Them'
News Privacy legislation need not hold back the deployment of CRM systems or other data-centric business plans, the information commissioner, Elizabeth France, told the CRM Summit in Warwickshire yesterday.
[January 31, 2002, 11:52]
EU Acts On Spam And Copyright
News The exponential growth of junk email in recent years is a fact of life," says the EU's internal market commissioner Frits Bolkestein in a statement. Given the unprecedented lobbying activities of rightholders, many groups had feared that the...
[February 7, 2001, 7:40]
