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Word Blunder Reveals Government Terror Doubts
News The UK government is once again in trouble over document management, with an apparent split within the government over new hard-line anti-terror laws exposed by a letter from Home Secretary Charles Clarke.
[September 17, 2005, 11:05]
US Fingerprinting Plan Earns Big Brother's Wrath
News The Right Honourable Charles Clarke, Britain's secretary of state for education and skills, was the runner-up for the Lifetime Menace award. Runner-up: The Right Honourable Charles Clarke MP A scheme that forces all visitors to America to be...
[July 28, 2004, 19:40]
New E-government Minister Appointed
News Meanwhile, as new home secretary in the reshuffle, Charles Clarke has said he will maintain "continuity" with Blunkett's security agenda including the ID card programme. Clarke was swift to reject suggestions from Liberal Democrat leader Charles...
[December 17, 2004, 13:10]
UK Lobbies For Data Retention
News Home secretary Charles Clarke claims that the powers would help to establish links between individuals. Telecommunications records, whether of telephones or of emails, which record what calls were made from what number to another number at what...
[July 11, 2005, 11:25]
Home Secretary To Push Ahead With Data Retention Law
News Home Secretary Charles Clarke has acknowledged the fears of ISPs over new data retention legislation, and called for a continuing dialogue between government and industry to "understand the business point of view".
[January 11, 2006, 13:55]
Government Abandons ID Card Bill
News But Home Secretary Charles Clarke has vowed to re-introduce the ID card bill after the election if Labour wins a third term and, in an interview with The Observer at the weekend, he branded Conservative and Liberal Democrat opposition as "crazy".
[April 5, 2005, 9:50]
Europe Debates Data Sharing
News The ministerial meeting, organised by the UK which now holds the EU presidency, will discuss home secretary Charles Clarke's ten point action plan in response to the terror attacks on London. As well as moves to set up the intelligence network...
[July 13, 2005, 15:50]
Open Rights And Digital Freedom
News ORG has centred its focus on Home Secretary Charles Clarke's proposed draft EU framework on data retention for ISPs and telecommunications companies which it believes could contravene the European Convention on Human Rights.
[September 12, 2005, 17:20]
Digital Rights Group To Fight Data Retention
News ORG has centred its focus on Home Secretary Charles Clarke’s proposed draft EU framework on data retention for ISPs and telecommunications companies which it believes could contravene the European Convention on Human Rights.
[September 12, 2005, 17:35]
Don't Let Up In ID Card Battle
Leader The pictures of Charles Clarke holding his own ID card highlight the irony: you don't need a national database to identify a perpetrator at the scene of a crime. Those in favour are more easily listed: Clarke and Blair, two people congenitally...
[October 20, 2005, 14:35]
Schools Get More Freedom For IT Spend
News Schools are to get more freedom to spend on IT, under measures announced by education and skills secretary Charles Clarke on Wednesday. Speaking at the BETT conference and exhibition in London, Clarke said that rules will be changed to allow...
[January 7, 2004, 11:35]
ID Cards Bill Passes Second Commons Reading
News The government's majority was slashed by more than half at the ID cards bill vote in parliament on Tuesday, despite Home Secretary Charles Clarke promising a range of concessions in order to stave off a full-scale backbench Labour rebellion.
[June 29, 2005, 16:15]
Government Unveils Cut-price ID Card
News Home Secretary Charles Clarke said the subsidised, standalone 10-year ID card fits in with Home Office spending plans and current financial estimates of the ID cards scheme. In a written answer to a parliamentary question, Clarke also revealed the...
[October 14, 2005, 16:15]
Home Secretary Admonishes Lords Over ID Cards
News Home Secretary Charles Clarke said the Lords' continued opposition to the ID cards bill is "unacceptable". The government wants to avoid having to use the Parliament Act to force through the ID card legislation as it would mean a further delay in...
[March 22, 2006, 14:55]
Rape Victim's Father Demands Paedophile Crackdown
News Blair's announcement that he was "actively considering" a review of the law to deal with online "grooming" during prime minister's question time Wednesday, was in direct response to a meeting that took place last week between the parents of Green...
[March 1, 2001, 13:05]
ID Opponents Have All The Cards
Leader The LSE's detailed 300 page report is by far the closest we'll see - it covers all of the above and comes to a damning conclusion - and that has been summarily dismissed as "completely wrong" and "mad" by Home Secretary Charles Clarke.
[June 27, 2005, 13:45]
Big Brother Frowns On Vodafone And The Home Office
News This year this is a two-horse race between Charles Clarke MP, Secretary of State for Education and Skills, and the US VISIT programme. Clarke is a long-time bogey man for privacy advocates, following his work on the Regulation of Investigatory...
[July 5, 2004, 12:10]
Dell’s New Blade - Home Grown Or Not?
News I designed my own product, and I'm pretty excited about it," says Jeff Clarke, senior vice president of Dell's product group. But Clarke's comment aside, it's not clear exactly how much of the product the computing powerhouse really engineered: The...
[November 1, 2004, 15:29]
Government Considering Online Crime Reports
News Speaking to the House of Commons this week, Home Office minister Charles Clarke said he had commissioned research into the idea of creating a Web portal where citizens could report minor crimes. Clarke explained: "While many [police] forces are...
[January 12, 2001, 7:41]
UK Moves Closer To Licensing Security Consultants
News According to committee member Charles Clarke MP, computer security consultants Have nothing to fear from the legislation. However, Clarke went on to hint that some sort of industry regulation may be required.
[May 3, 2001, 14:45]
