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Information Commission Lambasts Anti-terror Bill
News Sweeping measures to retain communications data for law enforcement purposes have been branded "unnecessary" by the Office of the Information Commissioner, along with the warning that such provisions are likely to infringe the Human Rights Act.
[November 14, 2001, 13:51]
Nebraska Information Technology Commission Strategic Initiatives: Strategic Plan For The Statewide Synchronous Video Network
White Papers Since 1992, various entities within the State of Nebraska have spent an estimated 20 million dollars on interactive video capture and display equipment, fiber connectivity, and engineering design charges to provide for distance learning and...
[September 1, 2005, 0:00]
Covert Staff Surveillance 'illegal'
News Firms that secretly monitor staff email and Internet use are likely to be breaking the law, according to the Information Commission. The guidelines can be downloaded from the Information Commission's Web site.
[April 9, 2002, 14:28]
EC Repeats Call For Telco Super-regulator
News The European Commission's Information Society Commissioner has reiterated her desire to introduce a pan-European telecommunications super-regulator. Viviane Reding said on Thursday that the current system — whereby countries take care of their own...
[November 20, 2006, 12:25]
Strengthening The Quality And Use Of Data In Africa
White Papers This paper provides some background on information systems for the Commission for Africa. It highlights the poor quality of current data available in most parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, discusses the role of information in development, and proposes...
[February 5, 2007, 23:00]
Intel-STMicro Deal Gets US Antitrust Probe
News The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is requiring more information, otherwise known as a "second request", as it reviews the deal for possible antitrust violations. US Federal Trade Commission officials are taking a deeper look into Intel's plans to...
[August 31, 2007, 9:27]
Microsoft Meets EC Deadline With A Thud
News An EC spokeswoman declined to say how long it would take to analyse the technical information provided by Microsoft, as the Commission's competitions services team, led by UK computer expert Neil Barrett, will have to review it in detail first.
[July 31, 2006, 16:55]
US Privacy Groups Call Amazon Policy 'deceptive'
News The Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC), a research centre in Washington DC, is asking the commission to investigate Amazon's practices and compel the bookseller to withhold information about its customers instead of selling it to third...
[December 5, 2000, 14:14]
No Decision On Microsoft Antitrust Fines For 'weeks'
News The European Commission said on Thursday it will need to spend a number of weeks analysing the information that Microsoft has presented in its hearing before making a final decision on whether the company will be fined for not complying with a...
[March 30, 2006, 17:50]
Greece Warned Over Gaming 'mess'
News Struan Robertson, solicitor at City law firm Mason's and editor of out-law.com, said that Greece did not follow an EC directive that requires countries to give the commission three months' notice before passing a law that concerns "Information...
[July 24, 2003, 11:33]
EC Suspends Oracle Probe
News But the Commission said it has "stopped the clock" until Oracle provides requested additional information. They missed the deadline, so we are making a formal notice that we have stopped the clock until we get the information we requested," said...
[January 12, 2004, 10:20]
EU Investigates Governments' Tech Procurement
News The European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, said Wednesday that it has asked Finland, France, the Netherlands and Sweden for information on the requirements they have set when seeking computer equipment from vendors.
[October 14, 2004, 14:05]
French Campaigners Win Concession In Mobile Privacy Row
News The decree also allows the CNIL -- National Commission for Information and Civil Liberties -- to punish cases of unsolicited marketing by fax. The Commission is congratulating itself after the French government followed its stance over the creation...
[August 12, 2003, 16:00]
EC Urges Unity On Data Protection
News The European Commission is intent on boosting data security and raising awareness around the protection of personal information. Speaking at the Microsoft Innovation Day in Brussels on Tuesday, vice president of the European Commission Franco...
[December 5, 2007, 14:26]
Swimming Against The Wireless Tide
News PulseLink is now working with ultrawideband (UWB), a method of delivering information without wires that was approved for commercial use in February by the Federal Communications Commission. And, to avoid the spectrum used by the military and...
[July 2, 2002, 10:35]
Malaysians Enrol Text Messages For Democracy
News Users simply text message their identification card (IC) number to the election commission and receive the required information in reply. The new verification service is a collaboration between the commission and Langkah Teknologi Sdn Bhd (LTSB), a...
[September 2, 2003, 10:20]
FTC Finds Against Rambus In Monopoly Case
News Rambus withheld information that would have been highly material to the standard-setting process within JEDEC," according to the commission's opinion. Federal Trade Commission officials have ruled that Rambus monopolised the memory chip market by...
[August 3, 2006, 9:35]
Microsoft Fine Splits Industry
News The organisations fell into two camps in their opinion of the penalty imposed on Microsoft for non-compliance with the Commission's 2004 antitrust order to share and licence protocol information with rivals.
[July 13, 2006, 10:05]
EC To Rival Google With Massive Digital Library
News The European Commission (EC) is not prepared to sit back and let The Commission acknowledged that making the resources in Europe's libraries and archives available on the Internet "is not straightforward" and sets out three key areas for action...
[October 3, 2005, 12:35]
Microsoft Concedes Royalties In Antitrust Offering
News The European Commission (EC) revealed some of the details of Microsoft's final server interoperability offer on Monday. The Commission nevertheless considers that, if the Court of First Instance rules in favour of the Commission in the pending...
[June 6, 2005, 13:05]
