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Datacatch Librarian Helps Small Business To Comply With Data Retention Laws
White Papers The new millennium has brought with it new challenges for data management and retention. All over the world, governments are introducing changes to the ways that companies are required to manage and retain their business data: tough new laws are...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
EU Data Retention Laws Face Rough Ride
News Should the Council's proposal unexpectedly obtain a majority, the requirement for a review of the measures in the form of an evaluation after three years in force should be incorporated into the text, so that the actual effectiveness of the...
[June 2, 2005, 14:40]
Home Office Backs Seven-year Data Retention Laws
News According to sources familiar with the issue, the Home Office is supporting the proposed EU Telecommunications Directive in order to widen the scope of UK electronic data retention laws. But the British government has only admitted to its support...
[September 28, 2001, 15:54]
MEP: Media Industry Must Not Infiltrate Data Retention Laws
Talkback The general issue here is that the commercially sponsored lobby is more often then not the one voice that's mostly heard (or even the only one heard) by politicians that make decisions that impact many directly or indirectly.
[November 29, 2005, 21:12]
EU Data Retention Laws Face Rough Ride
Talkback storing huge amounts of data costs real money. So you have this huge amount of electronic data. Apart from the privacy issues this will raise (eg: anybody interested in having their full communication logs available to administrator so and so...
[June 2, 2005, 21:57]
Lords Questions Gov't Over Web-data Retention Laws
News The House of Lords has questioned the government as to how it intends to implement EU legislation on internet-data retention. Under the European Data Retention Directive, ISPs in the UK will be legally obliged to retain all traffic data for up to...
[July 1, 2008, 16:06]
MEP: Media Industry Must Not Infiltrate Data Retention Laws
News As first reported by ZDNet UK last Thursday, the CMBA wants the scope of the Data Retention directive extended to cover all crimes, not just terrorism and other serious offences. CMBA sent a letter to Members of the European Parliament last week...
[November 29, 2005, 13:25]
IT Industry: Data Retention Mess Needs Fixing
News Speaking at the Storage Expo conference on Wednesday, Eurim boss, Philip Virgo argued that there were some 17 different legal requirements in UK law alone over data retention. Virgo added that IT departments are under an increasing legislative...
[October 20, 2006, 12:50]
Entertainment Industry 'trying To Hijack Data Retention Directive'
Talkback In short, please adjust the markets and laws to how we would like to do business rather then let the markets and laws dictate what is and isn't a succesfull business model. Summing up the proposal. Please spend plenty of tax money and government...
[November 29, 2005, 21:34]
EU Data-retention Directive Leaked
Talkback The European Commission getting involved in making new unjustifiable IT laws that makes everyone miserable .yet again. When will they stop? Maybe when the US tells them to.
[August 2, 2005, 15:34]
Data Retention: Who's Watching You?
News The scale of the situation was revealed during an inquiry in data retention by the All Party Internet Group (APIG) on Wednesday, when ISPs detailed the requests already flooding in from government agencies who want to look at the small amounts of...
[December 13, 2002, 16:03]
Europe Succumbs To UK Pressure On Data Retention
News The changes will enable individual countries to pass new laws allowing the retention of traffic data in emergencies. There are major human rights issues -- for several years, the Article 19 committee (a club of data protection commissioners) -- has...
[December 7, 2001, 15:05]
Emergency Data Laws 'break Human Rights Act'
News Emergency data retention measures are likely to break European human rights laws, a joint Parliamentary committee said on Friday. The data retention measure will not be subject to any parliamentary scrutiny, and will not be published as a public...
[November 16, 2001, 16:27]
ISPs, Telcos And Police Voice Fears Over Data Retention Cost
Talkback The data retention directive is badly designed and has many ambiguities in it. experts to prove that they can act responsibly and sensibly and ensure that the British laws do not include the anomolies, ambiguities and errors of Brussels.
[January 13, 2006, 22:08]
Lords To Consider Data Retention Objections
News Earl Northesk is supporting six amendments to the Bill that have been tabled by the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) -- a non-governmental think tank that opposes the retention of communications data for use in minor criminal...
[November 30, 2001, 17:40]
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. It obliges ISPs to retain communications data for law enforcement purposes, but, a year since...
[October 23, 2002, 17:08]
America Debates Data Retention
News Comcast did not take a position on data retention laws when asked on Thursday. At a hearing last week, Congressman Ed Whitfield, a Kentucky Republican who heads a House oversight and investigations subcommittee, suggested that data retention laws...
[April 18, 2006, 18:00]
US Investigates 'anti-terrorist' Data Retention
News Until Gonzales' public remarks last month, the Bush administration had generally opposed laws requiring data retention, saying it had "serious reservations" about them. Gonzales' earlier position had only emphasised how mandatory data retention...
[May 31, 2006, 9:15]
Scrap Data Retention Plans, Say MPs
News In a hard-hitting report, the All-party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG), said the data retention powers, contained in the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security (ATCS) Act, should be scrapped. Neither a voluntary nor a mandatory data retention...
[January 29, 2003, 15:50]
America Debates Data Retention
Talkback Data retention laws may be the wet dream of people sitting behind a desk running their part of the world on paper but in reality it's nothing but a burden that's begging for misuse and abuse by white board criminals and won't stand in the way of...
[April 20, 2006, 23:53]
