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E-commerce bill grows up to be an Act
News The e-commerce bill finished its long run through parliament Thursday but without the hoped-for digital signature from the Queen. These issues are now being debated in the equally controversial RIP (Regulation of Investigatory Powers) bill.
[May 26, 2000, 8:29]
Government accused of hidden e-commerce agenda
News The latest Select Committee on Trade and Industry report on the re-named e-communications bill, is far kinder on government than the last report. Part three of the e-communications bill, heavily criticised for threatening individuals with jail...
[November 4, 1999, 12:16]
News Burst: E-commerce, surveillance in Queen's Speech
News The government will lay out its plans for the Internet and e-commerce Wednesday with the controversial e-communications bill, one of 28 bills making an appearance in the Queen's Speech. The bill, which has been subject to a host of delays and...
[November 17, 1999, 11:40]
A Year Ago: Big Brother plans pushed through Parliament
News In a surprise move, the government announced in the Queen's speech that it will create a new bill, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill, to carry forward updates to the widely-criticised Interception of Communications Act (IOCA) and parts...
[November 17, 2000, 6:00]
Government defends new cyber-snooping powers
News On the day the government published its long-awaited E-communications Bill (formerly the E-Commerce Bill), Home Office minister Charles Clarke and e-Minister Patricia Hewitt stoutly defended the decision to push through controversial law...
[November 19, 1999, 16:22]
Big Brother plans pushed through Parliament
News In a surprise move, the government announced in the Queen's speech that it will create a new bill, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill, to carry forward updates to the widely-criticised Interception of Communications Act (IOCA) and parts...
[November 17, 1999, 15:28]
New surveillance bill comes under fire
News The most controversial aspect of the bill is the recommendation that law enforcers be given legal power to confiscate keys required to decrypt encrypted computer communications, a provision that also existed in the DTI's E-Commerce Bill.
[February 10, 2000, 16:27]
Surveillance: Government plans e-surveillance - Part 2
News The name of the bill has been changed from e-commerce to e-communications, which critics take to indicate the government is more concerned with how communication is used, rather than how e-commerce should be developed.
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Jane Wakefield - ISPs of the world unite!
News And while the e-communications bill has been transformed from a dirty urchin into a shiny choirboy of a bill, there is a more menacing bully lurking in the background. This new entry in the competition to be the worst bill ever in the world will...
[November 19, 1999, 17:07]
Surveillance: A special report
News Via the e-communications bill -- formerly the e-commerce bill -- and the Interception of Communications Act (IOCA) the government plans to keep tabs on us online. Home Secretary Jack Straw will get a wake-up call on the e-communications bill this...
[September 30, 1999, 16:49]
Jane Wakefield: Bullies, teenagers and Net giants
News On Thursday the government finished its final chapter of its e-communications book when it published its much feared Regulation of Investigatory Powers bill. But perhaps the most shocking aspect of the bill is the way the government has blatantly...
[February 14, 2000, 9:23]
Wiretapping may cost ISPs £17m - report
News Commissioned by the government, the Smith Report, entitled "Technical and Cost Issues Associated With Interception of Communications at Certain Communication Service Providers" outlines three possible ways ISPs could intercept email communications...
[April 26, 2000, 10:17]
US Report: Senate bill would lift bans on overseas crypto
News The bill also adds several new twists to the crypto debate by joining to it a parallel battle over wiretaps in the Federal Communications Commission. David Sobel, policy counsel at the Electronic Privacy Centre, said the bill offered encouragement...
[May 12, 1998, 11:51]
News Burst: Big Brother legislation pushed through
News In a surprise move, the government announced in the Queen's speech that it will create a new bill to carry forward updates to the widely-criticised Interception of Communications Act (IOCA) and parts of the e-communications bill.
[November 17, 1999, 15:46]
Jane Wakefield: Is it 1984, or just Lord of the Flies?
News Through the e-communications bill and the update to the Interception of Communications Act (IOCA), the government seems intent on keeping control of the Net and all who surf it. Access costs are too high, she told delegates gathered at the fourth...
[September 27, 1999, 13:58]
A Year Ago: Red tape hinders e-trade
News They did get it wrong with [Electronic Communications Bill security proposals for] key escrow, but this is a government that is listening. Recent bills affecting electronic communications, e-commerce and data protection have spotlighted the...
[March 5, 2001, 6:02]
NetWorld+Interop: NA releasing WebShield apps
News CEO Bill Larson is expected to discuss the E-ppliances at a Wednesday evening keynote at the conference. Network Associates worked with Sun Microsystems (building on top of the Solaris platform), Hewlett-Packard, Frontier Communications and CoSine...
[September 14, 1999, 9:34]
RIP Bill comes under fresh attack
News A forthcoming government bill concerning Internet communication directly contravenes the European Convention of Human Rights, according to a report published on Wednesday by leading civil liberty rights groups.
[March 22, 2000, 11:50]
Surveillance: An open letter to Jack Straw
News How the E-commerce Bill could send YOU to jail. If you fail to do so you would be committing an offence under the E-Commerce Bill rendering you liable to imprisonment for up to 2 years. We might have sent it to you last week; but according to the...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
It's self-destructing e-mail!
News When they see Bill Gates fighting his own e-mail in court, that means something," he said "If he can't stop it, who can? Zero Knowledge's service, known as the Freedom Net, encrypts all communications to the Internet, essentially hiding the user's...
[August 13, 1999, 8:57]
