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Software Patent War Ignites Again
News Internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevy is to deliver a speech next week promoting the measure, called the European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA). We have had enough of hidden agenda politics, it's time for the Commissioner to deliver...
[September 21, 2006, 13:05]
EU Charter May Outlaw Routine Spying
News The decision to set up the temporary committee is a disappointment said a spokesman for Commissioner Vitorino, European Commissioner in charge of Justice and Home affairs. Watson says that treaties and rules drawn up to protect human rights nearly...
[April 14, 2000, 12:23]
Lords: Government Doesn't Get Internet Threat
News The government did say that it would consider finding "more formal ways" of reporting security breaches to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), but only "when problems arise". Lord Erroll said this did not go far enough, as, by the time...
[October 31, 2007, 14:20]
Liverpool Guilty Of Data Protection Offences
News UK IT managers should take note of a prosecution brought by the Information Commissioner against Liverpool City Council. This right is the very cornerstone of the Act and that is why the legislation is so important," said Mick Gorrill, head of the...
[December 28, 2006, 13:06]
Update: Oftel Fails The UK - Reports
News The report quotes Olli Rehn, head of cabinet for Erkki Liikanen, European information commissioner, saying that while things had moved swiftly in other European countries the UK had failed to keep up.
[September 22, 2000, 8:24]
EC: Web 2.0 Means Power And Responsibility
News Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, was addressing the first meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) on Monday. Selmayr also referred to Reding's Tuesday meeting with ICANN's president and chairman, Paul...
[October 31, 2006, 13:14]
ID Cards: Do Benefits Outweigh Risks?
News The Office of the Information Commissioner will only support the introduction of an entitlement card if it believes it will be beneficial enough to outweigh the risks to privacy, human rights and social values.
[January 23, 2003, 16:38]
Carphone Warehouse In 'serious' Data Breach
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the Carphone Warehouse, and its sister company TalkTalk, could face the possibility of an unlimited fine if their data-protection and compliance systems are not brought up to scratch within 35 days...
[January 17, 2008, 11:02]
Ofcom Fights To Save Mobile-mast Website
News This upheld an earlier ruling by the information commissioner in September 2006. But they stopped providing data last year after the information commissioner ordered Ofcom to release information considered to be "commercially sensitive" about each...
[October 4, 2007, 11:59]
'Deceptive' Patent Lobbying Sparks Calls For Transparency
News She called for anti-fraud commissioner Siim Kallas, who recently launched the European Transparency Initiative, to investigate the activities of patent lobby groups. We call upon the commissioner for administrative affairs, Siim Kallas, to...
[July 11, 2005, 14:15]
There's Something About Mario
News Monti took over as EU competition commissioner from Karl Van Miert and quickly established himself as an aggressive antitrust enforcer. His five-year term as Competition Commissioner is set to expire in September, although no successor has yet been...
[March 24, 2004, 14:30]
Microsoft Seeks EC Clarity On Licensing Fees
News At an antitrust conference in Washington, DC, on Friday, Neelie Kroes, European commissioner for competition, talked about lessons her agency has learned in dealing with Microsoft and remedies for companies that refuse to supply information.
[April 24, 2007, 10:30]
Gov't Planning Centralised Communications Database
News The Information Commissioner's Office was quick to respond to the prospect of yet another large centralised database of citizens' personal data. If the intention is to bring all mobile and internet records together under one system, this would give...
[May 20, 2008, 13:33]
Microsoft Awaits Punitive EU Judgment
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer had flown in earlier this week for talks with EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti. But those talks collapsed on Thursday, and Monti said in a statement that the two sides had failed to agree on...
[March 19, 2004, 7:40]
EC Expected To Enforce SMS-roaming Price Cuts
News Yesterday was the 1 July deadline set by European telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding for the mobile industry to voluntarily reduce the price of data roaming and sending text messages when abroad in the EU.
[July 3, 2008, 9:59]
Privacy Experts: TJX Breach Was 'foreseeable'
News The company collected too much personal information, kept it too long and relied on weak encryption technology to protect it — putting the privacy of millions of its customers at risk," said the privacy commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddart...
[September 26, 2007, 14:12]
HMRC Offers £20,000 For Return Of Lost Discs
News Data-protection watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office has also revealed that a number of private and public-sector organisations have come forward and admitted problems with data security following the HMRC breach.
[December 5, 2007, 14:08]
Government's Data Retention Back-pedal Fails To Impress
News Brown criticised the Home Office for not addressing in the draft the concerns expressed by the information commissioner, the communications industry or by the parliamentary All Party Internet Group (APIG), which published a critical report earlier...
[March 11, 2003, 13:39]
NHS Trust Loses 21,000 Patient Details On Laptop
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) will investigate whether Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust breached the Data Protection Act when it failed to encrypt 21,000 patient details.
[July 1, 2008, 8:42]
Watchdog: HMRC Did Breach Data Laws
News The Information Commissioner's Office said on Tuesday that the government had failed to adequately safeguard the personal data. It is clear that there was a breach of data-protection requirements," said Richard Thomas, the information commissioner.
[December 18, 2007, 13:54]
