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Home Office defends comms-surveillance plans
News The Home Office has said ministers have not yet decided how to retain data on all communication — but has defended the importance of doing so. The Home Office said the means are still under consideration, but that the aim of collecting all...
[October 9, 2008, 15:27]
Home Office publishes data-sharing guidance
News The Home Office has published a code of practice for data sharing between public- and private-sector organisations. The Home Office said on Thursday that the code was designed to be "overarching", and that encryption was not specified as data could...
[October 9, 2008, 17:18]
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 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 again!
Talkback Yet again we have a ridiculous plan from the Home Office which would be wide open to fraud and misuse - and, surprise, surprise, (think they'd never learn? data available for loss and theft. Want a new identity?
[November 6, 2008, 14:31]
Home Office rapped over data-protection breach
News Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office has found the Home Office to have breached data-protection law over the loss of 84,000 prisoners' data. Although the data was lost by contractor PA Consulting, as the relevant data controller...
[January 23, 2009, 12:25]
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: 50,000 ID cards to be issued by April
News The Home Office also revealed that the role and budget of the National Identity Scheme's commissioner — a post which is required by the Identity Cards Act 2006 — has not been decided. In response to a parliamentary question asked by Lynne Jones MP...
[September 9, 2008, 14:04]
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 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 in DNA mixed bag
Blog The Home Office has come up with a mixed bag of proposals to get around the inconvenient fact that holding innocent people's DNA details indefinitely has been ruled illegal. A Home Office press statement said that these measures were designed to...
[May 7, 2009, 17:19]
Lawyer: Home Office unlikely to U-turn on hacker
News On Friday the Home Office said it would not reconsider its position McKinnon before the outcome of McKinnon's supreme court hearing this week. The case is before the courts, and we don't propose to comment further pending the outcome of the court's...
[June 8, 2009, 15:26]
Home Office expands scope of compulsory ID cards
News The Home Office has made a formal request to parliament to increase the scope of ID cards for foreign nationals. Under the proposed regulations, which are part of government plans, applicants under six categories for UK immigration will need to...
[February 12, 2009, 16:32]
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 responds to Facebook criticism
Blog The Home Office has given a response to Facebook's assertion that monitoring all communications on social-networking sites would be overkill. The Home Office sent me a statement yesterday evening: The government has no interest in the content of...
[March 25, 2009, 15:58]
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 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 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 looks to high street for ID biometrics
News The Home Office wants to use the tender process to gauge whether businesses such as post offices and banks would be interested in participating in taking fingerprints from people for the scheme, ZDNet UK understands.
[November 5, 2008, 17:11]
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]
