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Ofcom paving Bill published
News It is hoped that Ofcom will be fully operational by 2003, but the government is refusing to confirm that Parliamentary time will be available for the publication of the Bill in the 2002-2003 session. But the government has stated that the Bill will...
[July 16, 2001, 13:58]
MP calls for international body to tackle cybercrime
News Palmer, Labour MP and secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Internet Speaking at the Webroot Spyware Summit in London on Thursday, Palmer said that a UN body could, for example, put pressure on ISPs to exclude servers that host criminal Web sites.
[October 21, 2005, 17:30]
Home secretary considers Nasa hacker plea
News On Tuesday Johnson told the Home Affairs Select Committee, an influential parliamentary scrutiny body, that he would be able to intervene in the case if evidence of McKinnon's psychiatric condition showed that extradition would infringe his human...
[November 11, 2009, 12:25]
Olympics tickets could double as cash, travel cards
News Research into a 'cashless' Olympics and the "feasibility of integrating systems for ticketing, ID authentication and transport", is currently being carried out by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (Post), an independent body that...
[June 1, 2009, 8:48]
MPs will not drop Web sites during general election
News The former deputy speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Morris, is calling for MPs to take down their Web sites once the current Parliament is dissolved, as MPs technically become parliamentary candidates during this period.
[April 25, 2001, 12:13]
MPs reject international security standard
News It would not comment on Parliamentary security arrangements but said that users of the Parliamentary Data and Video Network (PDVN) are protected. He said: "For remote users, the introduction of data encryption, personal firewalls and anti-virus...
[August 8, 2003, 9:45]
Government admits over 850 laptops lost since 2002
News The information was provided in a written parliamentary answer by DWP minister Anne McGuire to Liberal Democrat shadow business secretary Sarah Teather on Wednesday. Other answers to parliamentary questions by Teather have revealed that the...
[March 27, 2008, 16:01]
Entertainment industry 'trying to hijack data retention directive'
News On Wednesday afternoon, a parliamentary committee approved these plans, which will now be voted on by the EU Council. At Wednesday's vote, the parliamentary committee did not extend the range of the proposed directive as the CMBA asked, but the...
[November 24, 2005, 17:00]
Number 10 will not investigate Phorm
News An inquiry into possible regulation of the ISP industry was launched by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Communications (apComms) in April. The regulatory body which oversees Ripa is the Office of Surveillance Commissioners (OSC).
[May 20, 2009, 16:25]
Malware hits 8pc of Commons computers
News Harvey was replying to a parliamentary written question from Conservative MP Tim Loughton. The information was revealed by Nick Harvey, a Liberal Democrat MP and member of the House of Commons Commission, the body responsible for the administration...
[May 21, 2009, 9:19]
Lords: Put a stop to 'pervasive' snooping
News Any future surveillance or data processing scheme suggested by Whitehall should be closely scrutinised by a dedicated parliamentary body and the information commissioner before it goes ahead, the report said.
[February 6, 2009, 12:22]
Security breaches down, says IT security report
News Organisations that have reviewed the survey include the government parliamentary body, Eurim; the Jericho Forum; the National Computing Centre; the Information Security Awareness Forum; and the government campaign, GetSafeOnline.
[April 22, 2008, 17:39]
News Schmooze: It's a wireless world
News The other regulation was a draft protocol published as an amendment to the Cybercrime Treaty by the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly. This body, the natural enemy of conspiracy theorists and Europhobes alike, is proposing things like making...
[February 22, 2002, 15:01]
MP seeks solar-powered laptop for developing world
News Wyatt visited Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia in 2000 on a grant from the UK Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. The contest could be judged by an independent body such as the Oxford Internet Institute, said Wyatt.
[October 2, 2002, 11:13]
ID Cards: The full story
News Opponents of entitlement cards are bringing the Parliamentary ombudsman into play, alleging maladministration by the government The government will struggle to bring in entitlement cards if the independent body overseeing data protection in the UK...
[November 13, 2003, 12:30]
Offender-tracking system scrapped due to costs
News It follows the revelation this week from a parliamentary committee that an IT system to underpin nine new fire control centres is expected to be £70m over budget. Public-sector IT body Socitm spoke out in the wake of the incident and condemned the...
[January 10, 2008, 7:55]
Data surveillance complaints have zero success rate
News Simon Watkin of the Home Office told a Parliamentary meeting on Wednesday that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal -- which is made up of senior lawyers and judges -- had considered some 470 complaints from people who claimed they had been unfairly...
[November 5, 2003, 17:25]
OFT broadens online advertising probe
News On Thursday, the cross-party All Party Parliamentary Communications Group (apComms) recommended in a report that websites using behavioural advertising should allow users to opt into services, rather than opt out of ads.
[October 16, 2009, 17:56]
UK 'needs' a minister for IT and innovation
News We consider the next parliamentary session to be a critical juncture in the UK's transformation into a knowledge economy," he said. The next government should appoint a minister with responsibility for encouraging innovation across the public and...
[May 3, 2005, 16:50]
Vorderman attacks Net industry for porn apathy
News At a heated debate of the Internet Watch Foundation's (IWF) first parliamentary meeting in the House of Lords, Vorderman stunned assembled members of the press and children's charities by accusing both government and the Internet industry of...
[January 23, 2001, 12:40]
