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Security chief: Data-breach laws must be fair
News Any UK data-breach legislation must not single out businesses or consumers but be fair to both, according to a security company chief. Phillip Dunkelberger, president and chief executive of data-encryption company PGP, said any UK legislation on...
[September 20, 2007, 8:50]
Data breach law: IT managers say 'No'
Blog Two surveys came out today, both concerning perceptions about a possible UK data breach notification law. Such a law would require companies suffering a data breach to notify all affected parties, especially the general public whose details have...
[June 5, 2008, 16:12]
ICO: Data-breach spate 'no worse' than normal
News The Information Commissioner's Office has said that the rash of data-breach reports in the past five months is due not to more data breaches, but to more people admitting to them. Maddison said that it is "often the simplest of procedural errors...
[February 15, 2008, 16:01]
Data breach calculations fail to pay off
Comment Organisations everywhere are trying to weigh the risk of a data breach against security investments, but those calculations may not be worth the effort, says Anders Pettersson. But the problem is there are so many reports on what a data breach...
[October 30, 2009, 13:29]
Data-breach admissions may become mandatory
News European data-protection supervisor Peter Hustinx said there is growing pressure within the European Parliament to create a data-breach notification law as part of a shake-up of privacy law. Hustinx said: "I would be very much in favour of making...
[October 28, 2008, 14:48]
Watchdog: HMRC did breach data laws
News It is clear that there was a breach of data-protection requirements," said Richard Thomas, the information commissioner. After the disclosure of the breach, the government appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers chairman Kieran Poynter to report on the...
[December 18, 2007, 13:54]
Lawyer urges debate over data-breach rules
News Earlier this month ZDNet.co.uk's sister site silicon.com launched its Full Disclosure campaign, calling for the government to consider legislation that would require organisations that suffer information security breaches to alert their customers...
[July 25, 2007, 8:54]
Lords presses government for data-breach law
News Peers have applied more pressure on the government to introduce a data-breach-notification law. Lord Broers, chair of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, told ZDNet.co.uk on Tuesday that organisations should be required by law to...
[July 8, 2008, 11:59]
Gov't rules out data-breach notification law
News The UK government has announced that it will not be implementing a data-breach notification law. Following a recommendation by information commissioner Richard Thomas in July, the government announced in a report on Tuesday that it will not...
[November 26, 2008, 16:19]
Carphone Warehouse in 'serious' data breach
News The companies were found to be in "serious" breach of the Data Protection Act by the ICO following a catalogue of errors that included passing inaccurate names, addresses and debts to credit reference and collection agencies, opening customer...
[January 17, 2008, 11:02]
IT industry split over data-breach penalties
News But the report is splitting opinion among senior figures in the IT industry, with disagreement over whether the government should resort to legislation in an attempt to prevent future incidents similar to the HM Revenue & Customs data breach.
[January 7, 2008, 8:10]
Watchdog warns Foreign Office over data breach
News The ICO was alerted to a security breach on the website of UKvisas, the joint Home Office and FCO directorate responsible for visa processing, and immediately launched an investigation into the site. As soon as the breach was exposed, UKvisas...
[November 14, 2007, 14:50]
MoJ consults on £500k data breach fines
News The Ministry of Justice is conducting a separate consultation, which is looking at custodial sentences for [malicious data breach] offences," said Smith. Data breach figures released by the ICO on Wednesday reveal that the single biggest cause of...
[November 12, 2009, 15:51]
Research leads to fresh calls for data-breach laws
News Of those organisations that have experienced a data breach, 60 percent did not tell their clients and half did not alert the police or authorities. In a survey of 300 IT directors, chief technology officers and IT security managers in the public...
[September 26, 2008, 9:22]
US payment processor in credit data breach
News A US-based payment processor has suffered an information breach that could have compromised millions of credit-card details. No unencrypted PINs (personal identification numbers), addresses or telephone numbers were involved in the breach, the...
[January 21, 2009, 15:42]
Home Office rapped over data-protection breach
News This breach illustrates that, even though a contractor lost the data, it is the data controller (the Home Office) which is responsible for the security of the information. Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office has found the Home...
[January 23, 2009, 12:25]
Watchdog calls for 'reckless data-breach' offence
News While individuals can be prosecuted for unlawfully obtaining personal data, current sanctions are designed to make an organisation that has suffered a breach liable to a penalty only if it continues to act in a way that contravenes the DPA.
[January 30, 2008, 16:52]
Watchdog aims to compel data-breach confessions
News According to Fielder, the UK is failing to keep up with the US, where about 40 states have a data-breach notification law in place. The National Consumer Council watchdog is calling on lawmakers to force businesses to confess to data breaches.
[September 2, 2008, 9:22]
Another day, another data breach
Leader Over the weekend, news broke of a data breach affecting up to 5,000 prison staff, whose details were on a hard disk lost by contractor EDS two months ago. Voluntary data-breach disclosure in the UK simply has not worked, as seen by the clockwork...
[September 8, 2008, 17:52]
Asia urged to strengthen data-breach laws
News Governments in Asia need stronger data-breach laws to ensure businesses improve the security of their customer data, according to a senior CA executive. Strong data-breach laws will also ensure companies take data security more seriously...
[September 28, 2007, 9:37]
