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Getting Anti-Terrorism Technologies Out For Homeland Use - That's Why It's Called The SAFETY Act
White Papers Many anti-terrorism technologies already exist. This article discusses these technologies with reference to the Homeland Safety Act. For example, to enable secure information sharing across agencies, new computer technologies can allow varying...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
PayPal Snagged By Anti-terrorism Law
News The US Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri told eBay that its online payment service violated provisions in the USA Patriot Act between October 2001 and July 2002, according to eBay's annual report, filed on Monday with securities...
[April 1, 2003, 8:06]
US Bill Would Treat All Hackers As Terrorists
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the main civil liberties group in the US focussing on the digital world, condemned parts of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) now in Congress, which would treat all computer trespass as terrorism.
[September 27, 2001, 14:52]
Snooping Laws Caught In Catch-22
News Ian Walden, head of IT law at Queen Mary College, giving evidence to an inquiry in data retention by the All-Party Parliamentary Internet Group, said the loophole stems from a conflict between two laws: the Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act...
[December 13, 2002, 15:54]
Home Office Up For Internet Villain Hat-trick
News Critics may point out that the department has done little work to deserve another nomination: this year, it made the shortlist for "the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act and demonstrating a lack of responsiveness to the Internet industry’s...
[December 23, 2003, 10:45]
Political Hackers Are Modern Freedom Fighters
News New UK legislation, designed to crack down on violent political extremists, the Anti-Terrorism Act 2000, has been criticised for introducing the concept of computer terrorism. The Act states that any action that "seriously interferes with, or...
[March 8, 2001, 12:10]
Emergency Data Laws 'break Human Rights Act'
News The measures are contained in the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Bill, now before Parliament. The Home Office has included a provision within the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Bill for communications data to be retained by service...
[November 16, 2001, 16:27]
RIPA Surveillance May Break Human Rights Laws
News The information commissioner's legal opinion, from Ben Emmerson QC, advised that RIPA's data access provision could break the law because of conflict with anti-terrorism legislation hurriedly introduced by the Home Office following last September...
[July 31, 2002, 16:43]
A Different Perspective Of The USA PATRIOT Act Title III
White Papers This white paper provides an excellent overview of the history of the Bank Secrecy Act and properly questions the efficacy of the general approach of using anti-money laundering regulation to combat terrorism.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The SAFE Act Will Not Make Us Safe
White Papers Criticism of the anti-terrorist campaign is not limited to the Patriot Act; many other aspects of the Bush Administration's domestic response to terrorism have come under fire. Opponents argue that various provisions of the Patriot Act, and related...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The SAFE Act Will Not Make Us Safer
White Papers Criticism of the anti-terrorist campaign is not limited to the Patriot Act; many other aspects of the Bush Administration's domestic response to terrorism have come under fire. Opponents argue that various provisions of the Patriot Act, and related...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
ISPs Revolt Against Data Retention Law
News The code of practice lays out the obligations of ISPs under the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act, which was rushed through parliament in the wake of the 11 September terrorist attacks. According to the letter, which was seen and first...
[October 23, 2002, 17:08]
ISPs Face Data Interception Deadline
News Part of the problem, said the spokesman, is that the new regulations are also intertwined with the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, which says that ISPs and telcos have to store communications data.
[July 10, 2002, 16:03]
UK Government Suffers Data Retention Blow
News The issue of data retention is governed by the Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act, which was passed in December 2001. The suggestion that [the anti-terrorism directive] would allow widespread surveillance is nonsense.
[September 17, 2002, 12:30]
Information Commission Lambasts Anti-terror Bill
News The Home Office has included a provision within the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Bill for communications data to be retained by service providers under a voluntary Code of Practice. Sweeping measures to retain communications data for law...
[November 14, 2001, 13:51]
New Information Commissioner Named
News France had been opposed to a voluntary code of practice contained within the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Bill that makes sweeping provisions for the retention of communications data by public communications providers for later access by law...
[July 26, 2002, 9:58]
Digital Rights And Actual Wrongs
Leader The next step would be to equate DRM with anti-terrorism - if that hadn't already happened - and thus make any attacks on DRM tantamount to terrorism itself. We've seen octogenarians arrested under terrorism laws for heckling at a party conference...
[November 7, 2005, 13:45]
Privacy Comes Under Attack
News Huge demands have been placed on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to stockpile traffic data on customers under the new Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Bill (ATCS), and the Information Commissioner has characterised the requirements as...
[March 30, 2002, 6:31]
Europe Succumbs To UK Pressure On Data Retention
News In reaching a common position on the revised Communications Data Protection Directive, the European Telecommunications Council has paved the way for the UK's anti-terrorism bill, which is scheduled for royal assent next week.
[December 7, 2001, 15:05]
Limiting Encryption May Open Doors To Criminals
News Gregg is discussing the proposal with other senators and is waiting to see Attorney General John Ashcroft's full anti-terrorism recommendation, expected to be released next week, Hart said. A new call for limits on encryption technology is finding...
[September 27, 2001, 10:26]
