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UK beefs up IT code of practice
News The UK IT industry has renewed attempts to tackle a poor track record on government IT projects by beefing up its code of practice with new compliance guidelines that allow customers to assess vendors' performance.
[January 17, 2005, 14:35]
MoJ issues digital-preservation code of practice
News A spokesperson for the ministry told GC News: "One of the key features of a code of practice is that it sets out recommended good practice, but is not legally enforceable. The information commissioner is responsible for promoting the code and has...
[July 20, 2009, 9:39]
Oh Orange, where art thy code of practice?
Blog They've even had to put up with an outage lasting weeks but, as it turns out, it seems the poor sods aren't even covered by the broadband industry code of practice! Orange subscribers who have taken up the mobile phone company's offer of free...
[April 24, 2007, 14:59]
Unions: Publish snooping code of practice
News Union chiefs in the UK are today urging the new information commissioner to resist employer lobbying and publish the delayed code of practice on the monitoring of staff email and Internet use. The TUC today said that the latest draft of the as-yet...
[January 9, 2003, 10:05]
Privacy experts slam snooping code of practice
News Privacy experts have slammed the Home Office's draft Code of Practice for accessing communications data as a nebulous attempt to justify the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). The draft Code of Practice addresses the most controversial...
[August 15, 2001, 16:40]
Monitoring staff: What the latest code of practice means
Talkback Do I have any come back or rights, as I am now in fear of my job - I have one month to prove my loyalty before I loose my job I have just been threatened with losing my job - when one my bosses started reading my email and found an email from a...
[November 7, 2003, 14:41]
Unions: Publish snooping code of practice
Talkback Can anyone advise me is it legal for an employer top tape record a conversation without consent of the employee and coerce them into saying certain things for thew benefit of the recording.
[June 25, 2005, 10:22]
Managing electronic data - a code of ethics
News Hofmann and several other CIOs helped TechRepublic compile this code of ethics for managing electronic data. Paskoff, founder and president of Employment Learning Innovations, an Atlanta firm that trains companies on workplace ethics and fair...
[July 3, 2003, 14:37]
Government wants your view on encryption keys
News The Government has launched a public consultation into a draft code of practice for a controversial UK law that critics have said could alienate big business and IT professionals. The Government issued the public consultation on the code of...
[June 8, 2006, 16:10]
Email snooping code suffers 'unnecessary' delays
News The Code of Practice designed to remove confusion over new laws affecting how employers monitor company email and Internet use is being unnecessarily delayed, say lawyers. Ford cited as an example a rule in the Code of Practice that would mean...
[May 2, 2001, 13:22]
UK Web sites face new accessibility rules
News A Code of Practice addressing discrimination against people with disabilities in the UK has removed some of the uncertainty surrounding Web site accessibility, but it does not go far enough, say lawyers, and the issue is now likely to be settled...
[February 27, 2002, 17:22]
Are developers stealing code?
News According to Susan McKiernan, an IT lawyer with Masons, the law firm behind out-law.com, the survey showed that there was a widespread acceptance of the practice of reusing and 'borrowing' code. Most software developers regard 'code-borrowing...
[June 3, 2004, 10:55]
Australian code aims to curb spam
News A spam taskforce operating under the auspices of the Australian Internet Industry Association (IIA) has released a draft industry code of practice designed to block the spam epidemic. The draft code -- released today by the IIA -- comes as the NSW...
[July 26, 2004, 10:55]
Home Office publishes data-sharing guidance
News The Home Office has published a code of practice for data sharing between public- and private-sector organisations. I welcome this high-level Code of Practice in terms of setting out some broad principles and considerations for participants...
[October 9, 2008, 17:18]
ISPs promise accurate broadband-speed advice
News Internet service providers in the UK will, from Friday, follow a voluntary code of practice that will commit them to being honest and accurate about the actual speeds of their broadband products. According to telecoms regulator Ofcom, internet...
[December 4, 2008, 12:32]
ISPs revolt against data retention law
News UK ISPs are poised to ignore a Home Office voluntary code of practice addressing retention of Internet data unless big changes are made to the wording. The code of practice lays out the obligations of ISPs under the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and...
[October 23, 2002, 17:08]
Australian controversy over government Web censorship
News In Australia the Code of Practice that forces ISPs to filter information on the Web has been branded "government endorsed privatised censorship" by the civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA).
[July 3, 2000, 9:31]
Which? to end e-commerce scheme
News Web Trader scheme -- a voluntary, consumer-focused code of practice for e-tailers in the UK -- is to close at the end of the month. Web Trader was launched in July 1999 to promote consumer confidence in online shopping by providing an independent...
[January 6, 2003, 16:15]
ISP code targets broadband speed confusion
News Ofcom has published a voluntary code of practice for internet service providers, in the hope it will help consumers get accurate and honest details on their broadband speeds. If they show that ISPs are not in compliance, it will clearly be time to...
[June 5, 2008, 11:37]
BASDA introduces a Code for better code
News The Business Application Software Developers Association (BASDA) on Wednesday launched a new code of practice for application software vendors, aimed at ensuring customers get the software they've paid for.
[October 21, 2004, 11:55]
