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E-bill Reverses Burden Of Proof, Says Expert
News The e-commerce bill reverses the burden of proof. Hewitt, who is an ex-secretary general of Liberty, denied that the proposals reversed the burden of proof but was unable to explain why she had reached that conclusion.
[September 23, 1999, 15:44]
Burden Of Proof: The Case For Linux, In Effective "Proof Of Concept" Deployments
White Papers Each federal entity has its own particular goals, but they all share common computing needs. Their IT systems must ensure a long list of mission-critical necessities, including reliability, flexibility, interoperability, and cost-effectiveness.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Tories Plan To Block Internet Snooping Bill
News According to Anne Widdecombe's press officer "the conservatives have severe reservations over the issue of the burden of proof". Encryption experts and civil liberty campaigners claim this reverses the burden of proof and is likely to result in...
[March 9, 2000, 9:01]
Big Brother Plans Pushed Through Parliament
News Part three of the e-communications bill forces suspects to hand over decryption keys or face up to two years in prison, and according to legal experts reverses the burden of proof, or the rule that the accused are innocent until proven guilty.
[November 17, 1999, 15:28]
A Year Ago: Big Brother Plans Pushed Through Parliament
News Part three of the e-communications bill forces suspects to hand over decryption keys or face up to two years in prison, and according to legal experts reverses the burden of proof, or the rule that the accused are innocent until proven guilty.
[November 17, 2000, 6:00]
Surveillance: Straw Petitioned On Commerce Bill Controversy
News Critics argue this reverses the burden of proof as suspects are assumed to be in possession of decryption keys in the first place. We are hoping this will help him understand that this is unworkable, an intolerable reversal of the burden of proof...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Pressure Grows On Government To Scrap Snooping Bill
News This, civil libertarians claim, is a reversal of the burden of proof. It doesn't reverse the burden of proof. The reversal of the burden of proof is a nonsense and I bet is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
[June 7, 2000, 8:44]
Internet Shopping Is Safe, Says Consumer Association
News Virgin places the entire burden of proof on the consumer in an Internet fraud case. We don't want to be in a situation where the burden of proof is left on the consumer -- these are normal consumer transactions," said Lowe.
[October 15, 2001, 11:26]
Software Patent Violations
Talkback The burden of proof lies with the plaintiff, and since M$ is a closed, proprietary system, how is the open source world going to know if they are in violation? This is just more FUD from the giant running scared, because they know they are facing a...
[May 17, 2007, 13:44]
Home Office 'wrong' Over Criminalisation Of IT Pros
Talkback Sounds more like 'removing the burden of proof' to me. "more criminally" by who's definition? I guess it takes a real IT pro to judge another IT pro. I'm guessing not that many are working for the police and courts.
[July 25, 2006, 0:27]
Women's Employment Rights Are Strengthened
News The burden of proof will now be on employers to prove that they have not discriminated against their employee. This shift of legislation is within the Sex Discrimination (Indirect Discrimination and Burden of Proof) Regulations 2001 and will have a...
[October 10, 2001, 18:17]
Mobile Health Applications
White Papers CFO’s and CIO’s will be adversaries for some time to come because showing return on investment will be difficult in quarterly or yearly mindsets and the burden of proof is on the CIO. Institutions are implementing new Internet-based and wireless...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Lords Presses Government For Data-breach Law
News The committee said this burden of proof should be reversed, so that banks would have to prove the victims were negligent or fraudulent if they want to deny a refund. However, the committee said that, in practice, the burden of responsibility is...
[July 8, 2008, 11:59]
Snoopers' Charter - Changes Are Not Enough
News Among the changes the government has proposed for RIP is a removal of the clause which civil liberties experts describe as reversing the burden of proof. It will now fall to the prosecution to proof that individuals had access to keys.
[June 28, 2000, 16:22]
Jane Wakefield: I Spy With My Little Eye
News It has always insisted that the clause in RIP forcing defendants to prove they had innocently lost keys rather than maliciously destroyed them did not reverse the burden of proof. But in the amended bill the burden shifts subtly to the prosecution...
[July 3, 2000, 10:10]
America Debates Data Retention
Talkback Data retention laws may be the wet dream of people sitting behind a desk running their part of the world on paper but in reality it's nothing but a burden that's begging for misuse and abuse by white board criminals and won't stand in the way of...
[April 20, 2006, 23:53]
Online Banks Failing Customers
News claims the small print on online banking contracts shifts the burden of proof of fraud onto consumers. Online banks are failing to protect consumers concludes a report published by British research institute the Foundation for Information Policy...
[July 6, 2000, 17:18]
We Own Windows Trademark - Microsoft
News The Court finds that Lindows.com has met its burden of proof in rebutting the validity of the Windows trademark," said Judge John C. Microsoft has asked a Seattle court to reconsider a strongly worded ruling, issued in March, which said that...
[April 5, 2002, 12:22]
UK Government Scoops 'Internet Villain' Nominations
News Anyone who loses an encryption key that the police have requested must shoulder the burden of proof to show their innocence -- a reversal of the usual concept in British law that defendants are innocent until proven guilty.
[January 17, 2002, 16:58]
Super-Asbos Planned For Cybercriminals
News In a civil court, hearsay is admissible evidence, and the burden of proof is lighter than criminal courts. The Home Office wants to give the police and the courts sweeping new powers which could see suspected hackers and spammers receiving the...
[July 18, 2006, 14:00]
