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Demon founder in court over email interception charges
News Clifford Stanford, the founder of Demon and Redbus, went on trial on Tuesday over charges of unlawful email interception. Stanford was charged with intercepting email correspondence from John Porter, former chairman of Redbus Interhouse, and son of...
[September 13, 2005, 16:05]
EC prepares interception directive for email
News Interception of electronic communications during criminal investigations or as a matter of national security is expected to be justified under the new directives. The drive will broaden existing EU data privacy directives to cover email, but is...
[June 8, 2000, 11:40]
News Burst: EC prepares interception directive for email
News The drive, to prevent Internet crime, will broaden existing EU data privacy directives to cover email, but is expected to present strict guidelines on exactly what communications can be intercepted and why.
[June 8, 2000, 7:09]
Email interception law faces more delays
News The technical advisory board, which is supposed to help iron out the technical issues surrounding the interception of all emails and Web traffic in the UK, has not yet been formed. Until the technical board is formed and has time to figure out how...
[March 1, 2002, 14:48]
Surveillance: Government plans e-surveillance
News The interception of email But the government says the current bill needs updating to allow interception of email and Internet traffic. At the heart of the surveillance debate is the proposed Interception of Communications Act, which, if it is made...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
A Year Ago: Government plans e-surveillance
News The interception of email But the government says the current bill needs updating to allow interception of email and Internet traffic. At the heart of the surveillance debate is the proposed Interception of Communications Act, which, if it is made...
[September 27, 2000, 7:02]
Government plans may endanger Net privacy
News Home Secretary Jack Straw, announced in June government plans to extend existing powers for law enforcers to bug phones and intercept post to include the interception of email. LineOne managing director Ajay Chowdhury is worried the laws governing...
[August 31, 1999, 15:41]
Start-up aims to improve internal security
News Companies such as Vontu and its rival Vericept have built data interception products that monitor email, instant messages, FTP files and other electronic communications on corporate networks, sniffing for leaks of sensitive information.
[January 25, 2005, 8:40]
Email snooping code suffers 'unnecessary' delays
News However, in the draft Code of Practice the Commissioner, Elizabeth France, advises that outside callers and email senders should be made aware of interception procedures. This rule refers to Section 1(3) of the controversial RIPA, which addresses...
[May 2, 2001, 13:22]
Covert staff surveillance 'illegal'
News Interception is allowed where the parties to the call, email or other communication have both consented to the interception or where the interception is of communications taking place in the course of the carrying on of the employer's business.
[April 9, 2002, 14:28]
Gov't web monitoring plans unworkable, warns Linx
News The London Internet Exchange (Linx), which counts ISPs among its 330-plus internet partners, on Tuesday severely criticised the government's plans, known as the Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP).
[August 4, 2009, 15:55]
Surveillance: Privacy versus policework - the debate
News There are no statistics on the number of criminals caught using surveillance, but Home Secretary Jack Straw claims that one in every two interception warrants he issues results in an arrest. There is no intention to have interception on the extent...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Demon founder pleads guilty to email charges
News Clifford Stanford, the founder of Demon Internet and Redbus, pleaded guilty on Thursday morning to unlawful email interception. Codefendant George Liddell, a former employee of Redbus, also pleaded guilty to the same charge.
[September 15, 2005, 12:50]
Surveillance: Is e-privacy a human right?
News The report goes on to suggest that interception as a whole will need to be rethought when the UK introduces the Human Rights Act next year, potentially opening up the government itself to legal action.
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Spam could soon be majority of email
News In July, according to Brightmail's latest interception figures, unsolicited bulk email made up a whopping 36 percent of all email travelling over the Internet, up from 8 percent about a year ago. Corporate networks are becoming increasingly clogged...
[August 29, 2002, 15:15]
Password Interception in a SSL/TLS Channel
White Papers The paper shows it is actually applicable against latest and most popular implementations of SSL/TLS (at the time this paper was written) for password interception. Simple password authentication is often used e.g.from an email software application...
[October 5, 2009, 0:00]
Employers can read your email from today
News The government says that new regulations just allow businesses to work around controls over the interception of digital communications introduced by the RIP Act. From Tuesday, new regulations give employers the power to eavesdrop on the email...
[October 24, 2000, 11:45]
Big Brother plans pushed through Parliament
News Updates to the Interception of Communications Act (IOCA) give law enforcers access to email and Internet traffic. In a surprise move, the government announced in the Queen's speech that it will create a new bill, the Regulation of Investigatory...
[November 17, 1999, 15:28]
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]
A Year Ago: Big Brother plans pushed through Parliament
News Updates to the Interception of Communications Act (IOCA) give law enforcers access to email and Internet traffic. In a surprise move, the government announced in the Queen's speech that it will create a new bill, the Regulation of Investigatory...
[November 17, 2000, 6:00]
