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Criminal Justice IT programme seeks suppliers
News The UK government's £1.2bn criminal justice IT programme is looking for suppliers to deliver software and data hosting services for its main infrastructure. The Criminal Justice Exchange will allow information sharing between the police, Crown...
[July 12, 2004, 15:15]
Criminal justice IT contracts up for grabs
News The Department for Constitutional Affairs is set to replace its main IT contracts covering key projects in the modernisation of the criminal justice system, it has emerged. Under the new programme, these suppliers could be replaced in order to...
[January 19, 2005, 15:50]
Experts question plans to ban hate email
News The government wants to change the Criminal Justice and Police Bill to ban hate emails and hate text messages. The Criminal Justice and Police Bill is currently going through Parliament and Thursday's changes are part of a package of regulations...
[February 23, 2001, 9:12]
Government to ban 'hate emails'
News The government will table an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Police Bill on Thursday that will, if successful, ban hate emails and hate text messages. The Criminal Justice and Police Bill is currently going through parliament and Thursday's...
[February 22, 2001, 7:10]
Tony Blair promises IT upgrade for justice system
News In a wide-ranging speech on Tuesday, which promised to modernise many aspects of criminal justice, he twice referred to IT initiatives within the courts and police force. The time has come to drag the criminal justice system from the nineteenth...
[June 18, 2002, 16:46]
Government urged to be bold with IT projects
News Industry experts have warned that the government needs to take more risks with technology if it is to succeed in major modernisation projects such as the NHS and criminal justice. But we are seeing changes in the public sector with people like...
[October 29, 2003, 16:35]
Police, courts to save millions via streamlining tech
News UK courts and police forces could save tens of millions of pounds thanks to technology to aimed at streamlining the criminal justice system. The CJ Know-How system should help deliver "real savings" to the billions of pounds it costs to administer...
[July 18, 2008, 10:49]
Home Office to block Lib Dem MP's entrapment proposal
News The Home Office has said it will block entrapment proposals tabled for inclusion in the Criminal Justice and Police Bill that would grant police new powers to crack down on Internet paedophiles. Laws allowing police officers to "entrap" Net...
[February 20, 2001, 6:10]
Should We Object to the Recent Tide of Data Legislation?
Blog This comes on the back of proposals late last month making it a criminal offence to carelessly lose or release personal data, an amendment to the criminal justice and immigration bill. Clearly society needs the ability to properly investigate...
[May 22, 2008, 9:12]
'Reckless' data loss made a civil offence
News In a victory for data-loss law campaigners, MPs backed the amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act to make it an offence for anyone to "intentionally or recklessly disclose information" or "repeatedly and negligently" allow...
[May 13, 2008, 9:34]
DoJ may regret battling Google over porn probe
News But the Justice Department's defence of the Child Online Protection Act in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union is a civil dispute, not a criminal investigation. This case is unusual because it was brought by the Justice...
[February 22, 2006, 12:30]
Rewards shift nature of worm hunt
News It depends on the criminal justice system; it depends on the court that a case goes to; it depends on where in the world that crime is being prosecuted. He moved to Microsoft to work on similar issues and also to focus on criminal complaints: For...
[June 11, 2004, 11:25]
Media lobbying 'watered down' data-misuse laws
News Thomas was referring to lobbying from major newspaper groups over clause 76 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, which he persuaded the government to include with a view to strengthening penalties for those who gain illegal access to data...
[April 23, 2008, 10:30]
Justice Dept cools on suing swappers
News The Justice Department has indicated that it won't target peer-to-peer networks for two reasons: imprisoning file-swapping teens on felony charges isn't the department's top priority, and it's always difficult to make criminal charges stick.
[August 24, 2004, 11:45]
Expect more stock option cases, warn Feds
News Like other forms of corporate fraud, the Department of Justice takes stock option backdating seriously, and we will continue to use our best efforts to uncover criminal conduct where it occurs," said Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty.
[September 7, 2006, 9:55]
Sun owes it all to Scott McNealy
News It's a Java XML project to connect up the criminal justice agencies. We are playing on our own in a very similar way with the criminal justice project. It's probably fair to say that Sun won't be recording 2003 as one of the golden years of its 20...
[January 23, 2004, 16:25]
Kumar indicted as CA gets charges deferred
News The 10-count indictments against Kumar and Richards were unsealed on Wednesday as part of the Justice Department's criminal case against the individuals at CA. Computer Associates International's former chief executive was indicted on Wednesday on...
[September 23, 2004, 12:55]
Straw makes Internet grooming an election issue
News Liberal Democrat MP Paul Burstow is accusing the Home Office of U-turning on its decision to block his "grooming" proposal originally tabled for inclusion in the Criminal Justice and Police Bill. It obviously takes the heat of a general election...
[May 21, 2001, 13:37]
Policing the unacceptable - Bringing paedophiles to justice
News The Criminal Justice Act (1988 ) made it illegal to possess obscene images of children. An amendment of the Criminal Justice Act (1994) made the distribution of child pornography an arrestable offence only.
[March 22, 1999, 12:25]
Hynix fined $185m for DRAM price fixing
News The US Department of Justice announced Thursday that Hynix Semiconductor has agreed to plead guilty to criminal antitrust violations over DRAM price fixing and pay a $185m (£96.7m) fine. Four Infineon executives later agreed to plead guilty to...
[April 22, 2005, 9:45]
