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Home Office Admits To Database Breaches
News The Home Office has admitted that the security of its ID and passport service database has been compromised several times, but denied that remote hackers were responsible. In a response to a parliamentary question at the end of last week, the Home...
[August 31, 2006, 9:40]
Home Office Agency Buys Biometric Security
News The Home Office's Security Industry Authority (SIA) has announced a deal with ISL Biometrics to install biometric technology for network access. Biometric authentication systems have been installed to give remote workers and office staff access to...
[April 16, 2004, 8:35]
Home Office Backs Seven-year Data Retention Laws
News The Home Office is planning to introduce new surveillance laws that would allow communications traffic data to be stored for up to seven years. According to sources familiar with the issue, the Home Office is supporting the proposed EU...
[September 28, 2001, 15:54]
Home Office Up For Internet Villain Hat-trick
News The Home Office has made it onto the short list for Internet Villain at the ISPAs - the most unwanted award in the Internet industry's calendar. If it wins, the Home Office will take away the award for the third year in a row -- not something that...
[December 23, 2003, 10:45]
Home Office Commits Gaffe Over Entrapment
News A controversial case which used entrapment procedures to catch a paedophile operating on the Internet has been used by the Home Office to defend the fact that under UK law entrapment procedures are outlawed.
[February 6, 2001, 14:05]
Home Office Admits Data Retention Plans
News The Home Office has admitted that it plans to reserve extra powers to force ISPs to retain data about customers if its current "voluntary code of practice" proves inadequate to deal with terrorists. It also leaves wide open the question of what...
[October 26, 2001, 18:25]
Home Office 'wrong' Over Criminalisation Of IT Pros
News The Home Office has been blasted by lawyers over its claims that changes to the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) will not affect legitimate users. Home Office minister Vernon Coaker claimed this week that amendments to the CMA will only criminalise those...
[July 19, 2006, 16:45]
Home Office Finalises ID Management Plans
News The Government's Identity Management Strategy will set out the key uses of ID cards, explain how the Home Office will work with other departments, and "show how intermediate steps will start to deliver more secure identification, and deliver...
[October 19, 2006, 15:35]
Home Office Launches Virtual Strip Searches
News Criminals worried about what life behind bars may be like are offered an online prison tour as part of a new service launched by the Home Office. The Home Office is offering a virtual tour of prison life where Web site visitors are shown the inside...
[October 12, 2004, 17:05]
Home Office Says 'no' To Cybercrime Figures
News The Home Office will not be recording cybercrime figures, despite investing £25m in a National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) launched on Wednesday. The failure to quantify how much criminal activity is taking place on the Net has become a bone of...
[April 20, 2001, 15:10]
Home Office To Criminalise Chatroom Meetings
News The home secretary has accepted recommendations made by the Home Office Internet taskforce to criminalise the online "grooming" of children, making it a criminal offence for an Internet paedophile to meet a child offline with the intention of...
[July 20, 2001, 17:18]
Home Office Advisor Urges Biometrics Testing
News A senior Home Office advisor has warned that biometrics has a massive usability hurdle to overcome before systems can be rolled out. However, Marek Rejman-Greene, a senior biometrics advisor for the Home Office's scientific development branch, has...
[October 20, 2006, 13:50]
Home Office: Immigration Points System 'will Benefit UK'
News Intended to make it easier for highly skilled workers from outside the EU to enter the country to work without first having a job offer or sponsor, the new scheme could boost the skilled workforce in the UK, according to the Home Office.
[March 8, 2006, 15:15]
Home Office: We Got Data Retention Wrong
News The Home Office made a startling admission on Thursday morning that its plans for making ISPs retain details of customer emails and Web surfing have not worked out as it had hoped, and the UK is now "back to square one".
[December 5, 2002, 16:36]
Home Office Laptop And Disc 'bought On EBay'
News The Home Office is investigating the apparent sale of one of its laptops, along with an encrypted data disc, on eBay. The technicians at the repair centre, at Leapfrog Computers in Westhoughton, subsequently found an encrypted Home Office disc...
[February 28, 2008, 11:57]
Home Office Pledges £1.5m To Help Protect Children Online
News Home Office minister Beverley Hughes announced the child safety campaign on Monday. In March 2001, the Home Office set up an Internet Taskforce to investigate concerns that paedophiles were using Internet chatrooms to meet children.
[December 3, 2001, 11:38]
Home Office May Criminalise Chatroom 'grooming'
News Home Office backtracks on its argument that UK laws exist to protect children online The Home Office is to propose a controversial "anti-grooming" order today, making it a criminal offence for paedophiles to solicit children in Internet chatrooms.
[May 9, 2001, 14:25]
Home Office To Block Lib Dem MP's Entrapment Proposal
News The Home Office has said it will block entrapment proposals tabled for inclusion in the Criminal Justice and Police Bill that would grant police new powers to crack down on Internet paedophiles. Laws allowing police officers to "entrap" Net...
[February 20, 2001, 6:10]
Home Office Web Site Adopts Adult Rating
News The Home Office has caused a stir among the Internet industry for quietly adopting the Internet Content Rating Association's (ICRA) labelling system for its Web site in the run up to the General Election.
[May 4, 2001, 10:06]
Home Office Demands Massive Cybersecurity Overhaul
News According to reports, the Home Office asked the last survey question in February 2003 -- suggesting the reports findings could be at least a year old. A Home Office report called "The Future of Netcrime Now", which it began work on two years ago...
[December 13, 2004, 17:30]
