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House Of Lords Discusses Child Safety Online
News The House of Lords is to debate the issue of protecting children online Tuesday at a seminar entitled Protecting the online generation: the crucial role of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). The purpose of the seminar is to engage with...
[January 22, 2001, 14:34]
Cyber-snooping Bill Through House Of Commons
News It is now up to the House of Lords to decide whether the Bill becomes law. The much maligned RIP (Regulation of Investigatory Powers) Bill, or 'snooping bill' as it is better known, completed its third and final reading in the House of Commons...
[May 9, 2000, 17:03]
A Year Ago: Cybersnooping Bill Through House Of Commons
News It is now up to the House of Lords to decide whether the Bill becomes law. In a heated exchange, Tory and Liberals struck out at the human rights implications, as well as the workability and potential cost of the RIP Bill in the House.
[May 9, 2001, 6:03]
ID Cards: A Titanic Project Waiting For Its Iceberg
News The controversy around ID Cards raged on this week with the rejection of the ID card bill by the House of Lords. Q: The Home Office has said it will seek to overturn the Lords vote against the ID card Bill.
[January 18, 2006, 11:25]
Government Suffers Another ID Card Defeat
News The government ID cards bill has suffered two more defeats in the House of Lords after peers voted in favour of further amendments to the proposed legislation. The report stage of the ID cards bill in the House of Lords was completed on Monday with...
[February 1, 2006, 10:10]
Lords Inquiry Looks Again At Internet Security
News The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has announced a follow-up inquiry to its Personal Internet Security report. The House of Lords is likely to be debating the report in the summer and to ensure that the debate is as well informed...
[February 21, 2008, 8:36]
ID Card Bill Savaged By The Lords, Again
News The House of Lords has dealt another blow to the government's ID cards bill by voting against making it compulsory for people to have their biometric details included on the National Identity Register (NIR) when they apply for a new passport.
[January 24, 2006, 17:00]
Ermine, Security And Common Sense
Leader After it mounted the only plausible opposition to ID cards, we're getting used to the House of Lords being the sole provider of effective oversight for the UK's technology policy. Many of these areas overlap, so the House of Lords' first task must...
[July 31, 2006, 17:25]
Lords Backs Amendment To Data-loss Law
News Losing personal data took a step closer to becoming a criminal offence after the House of Lords backed a change in the law. A Ministry of Justice spokesman said it would consider its position on making data loss a criminal offence following the...
[April 29, 2008, 8:10]
Lords Probes Online Security Risks
News A House of Lords committee investigating internet security has heard evidence from leading financial services organisations. The House of Lords launched its enquiry in July. Phishing was one issue being investigated by the Lords committee.
[December 14, 2006, 16:29]
Lords To Consider Data Retention Objections
News The House of Lords will on Monday consider amendments to anti-terror legislation that reject government plans to stockpile communications and traffic data for non-terrorist as well as terrorist investigations.
[November 30, 2001, 17:40]
Lords Chides Government Over Internet Security
News The government must act now or risk losing public confidence in the security of the internet, an influential House of Lords committee has found. A wide-ranging inquiry into personal internet security conducted by the House of Lords Science and...
[August 10, 2007, 0:01]
ID Card Battle Remains Deadlocked
News The ID cards battle remains deadlocked after MPs again overturned a House of Lords amendment that would have prevented people being forced to register for an ID card when applying for a passport. It is the second time this week that MPs have...
[March 16, 2006, 15:30]
Home Secretary Admonishes Lords Over ID Cards
News The government has criticised the House of Lords' repeated blocking of ID card legislation for trying to delay and destroy the bill. The government won the House of Commons vote by 284 votes to 241 and the ID cards bill will now return to the Lords...
[March 22, 2006, 14:55]
The Wrong ID Won't Get You Very Far
Leader Having struggled through the House of Commons on an anaemic majority, the bill's up before the House of Lords. The House of Lords has done well to act on such forebodings, and we hope that once back in the Commons the MPs will do the decent thing...
[January 17, 2006, 14:50]
Lords To Consider Nasa Hacker Appeal
News Gary McKinnon, the Briton who has admitted hacking into Nasa's computer systems, may be able to appeal to the House of Lords against his extradition to the US. According to a firm of solicitors acting on behalf McKinnon, the law lords will consider...
[August 1, 2007, 12:52]
US Lawyers 'threatened' Nasa Hacker, Court Hears
News Speaking at an appeal hearing at the House of Lords, McKinnon's defence lawyer David Pannick QC said the US had tried to "coerce" McKinnon into waiving his rights to fight extradition and trial in the US on charges of hacking government and...
[June 16, 2008, 18:08]
ID Cards Bill Savaged By Lords And MPs
News The House of Lords all-party Constitution Committee said an independent body is needed to be the "custodian" of the NIR to prevent improper access to data by public servants. A separate report out on the same day by the House of Lords and
[October 25, 2005, 9:50]
Cybercrime Threat Keeps Growing
News Governments, to gain a competitive edge, 'acquire' or steal technology," said Schmidt, speaking at a House of Lords event on Monday. Schmidt, Burls and McMurdie spoke to ZDNet UK on Monday at a House of Lords event organised by managed security...
[November 21, 2006, 12:14]
Straw Moves On RIP Bill To Avert Lords' Defeat
News According to reports the much maligned RIP Bill is about to be modified by the home secretary Jack Straw, in a bid to protect it from a mauling in the House of Lords. Any move by Straw to modify the bill will be seen as a significant step-down, but...
[June 21, 2000, 15:16]
