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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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Orange has wrist slapped over Data Protection breach
Blog The communications giant has had a tongue-lashing from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) over a breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA). It seems that Orange customer service representatives that had recently been employed had been...
[June 22, 2007, 14:53]
Fresh calls for data-breach law
News A member of a prominent House of Lords committee has repeated calls for a data-breach notification law. Speaking at an event organised by Intellect on Thursday, Lord Harris of Haringey said: "I support the recommendation the [Lords Science and...
[September 14, 2007, 10:08]
Symantec, RSA call for unified data-breach law
News Security vendors RSA and Symantec have called for a single US federal data-breach notification law, echoing similar demands in the UK. At the RSA security conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, both John Thompson, the chief executive officer of...
[April 9, 2008, 10:59]
Companies advised on data-breach clean-up
News Any organisation trying to cope with the consequences of a data breach should beware of getting bogged down in the details, according to a former US Air Force major. The US Air Force experienced a data breach in May 2005 when 33,000 personal staff...
[September 20, 2007, 14:15]
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]
