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Blacklister fined £5,000
Blog Ian Kerr, who operated a blacklist of construction workers, has been fined £5,000 at the behest of the Information Commissioner's Office. Before being caught by the ICO in May, Kerr had operated the list since the 1970's, said an ICO statement on...
[July 16, 2009, 17:30]
Chat rooms targetted by Internet Watch Foundation
News David Kerr, chief executive of IWF believes chat rooms are "the next big problem" in the fight against child exploitation on the Internet. Kerr wants the police to set up a quick response unit to deal solely with Web content, "that way as soon as a...
[March 2, 1999, 11:17]
Web of Porn: The Business of Porn - Part 1
News But gauging the size of this market is difficult, as David Kerr of the UK Net watchdog Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) testifies. We act on reports of indecent material online," said Kerr. Many ISPs see it as beneficial to work with us as it can...
[March 9, 1999, 15:43]
Internet watchdog chief quits
News David Kerr publicly revealed his resignation at the weekend. After five challenging and highly rewarding years in the post, I have concluded that it is a time for a change for me and for the organisation," wrote Kerr in his resignation letter.
[January 7, 2002, 16:53]
A Year Ago: Chat rooms targetted by Internet Watch Foundation
News David Kerr, chief executive of IWF believes chat rooms are "the next big problem" in the fight against child exploitation on the Internet. Kerr wants the police to set up a quick response unit to deal solely with Web content, "that way as soon as a...
[March 2, 2000, 5:37]
News Burst: IWF calls for clarification on Race Relations Act
News The IWF's David Kerr told ZDNet this morning: "What amounts to an offence under the Race Relations Act is not as clear as under other laws such as those concerning child pornography. According to Kerr, reports of UK race hate sites to the IWF have...
[July 6, 1999, 11:12]
House of Lords discusses child safety online
News The purpose of the seminar is to engage with parliamentarians, MPs and Lords in making sure that they understand the process of regulating Internet content, and in particular child pornography," said David Kerr, chief executive of IWF.
[January 22, 2001, 14:34]
Internet regulator considers anti-paedophile powers
News There is still a lot of work to do," said David Kerr, chairman of the IWF. The decision is to develop an informative approach to the criteria that this might produce -- we have made no decision as to how this would be applied or how we might...
[November 21, 2001, 6:31]
Resignation rush threatens Internet watchdog
News Feather and David Kerr, chief executive, leave amid ongoing over talks over the future governance of the IWF. It is also seeking a new chief executive to replace Kerr when he leaves in March. The former chair of the British Internet watchdog has...
[January 8, 2002, 13:50]
Yahoo! racist chatrooms 'untouchable'
News Racist organisations who you would expect to take to court in the UK know the law and tend to stay within it," said David Kerr, chairman of IWF. The present law isn't particularly easy to get a prosecution from -- if the new government and...
[May 23, 2001, 12:45]
Home Office Web site adopts adult rating
News But David Kerr, vice chairman of the ICRA board, said the rating system depends on users setting up their browsers to only accept labelled sites. A key government department applying the system is a positive signal of real support," said Kerr.
[May 4, 2001, 10:06]
PayPal goes international
News There are online payment providers that claim to be international, but you still have to be US merchant, or if you're in Europe you have to settle in US dollars," said Ken Kerr, senior research analyst at Gartner.
[September 26, 2002, 15:02]
UPDATE: Suspected terrorist training site shut down
News No one has such powers [to force an ISP to remove a Web site] other than the police acting through the ISP," said David Kerr, chairman of the IWF. According to Kerr, it is possible that Sakina Security Service was operating an "orphan site", where...
[October 5, 2001, 10:28]
IWF says ISPs must drop illegal newsgroups
News How far we go and how much we force we will have to control what ISPs carry has been at the focus of our discussions," said David Kerr, chairman of IWF. The freedom of speech side is most worried about this development -- it is a step further...
[July 19, 2001, 10:10]
IBM confronts Sun in Unix face-off
News Unix is the largest server business for us now," Kerr said. Unix servers now account for the most revenue of IBM's four server lines, said Mike Kerr, IBM's vice president of marketing for the product line.
[April 23, 2001, 12:45]
IWF crackdown on Net paedophiles gets £100,000
News At the launch of the ICF report, David Kerr, chief executive of IWF, revealed plans for the organisation to act more as a mediator between ISPs and the police, providing law enforcement authorities with intelligence of online paedophile activity.
[April 3, 2001, 15:13]
Congress isn't swallowing Carnivore
News The essence of a development program is to learn as you develop and deploy," said Donald Kerr, assistant director of the FBI's lab division, who said a number of DoJ and Judiciary committee members had received briefings on Carnivore months ago.
[July 25, 2000, 9:01]
Senator suggests destroying song-swappers' PCs
News If Hatch's proposal were to be written into law, Kerr said, it would have to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a federal computer crime statute. Orin Kerr, a former Justice Department prosecutor who is an associate professor at George...
[June 19, 2003, 7:20]
BT to shed 10,000 workers
News CWU general secretary Andy Kerr said in a statement on Thursday that his union would hold Livingston to his promise that any redundancies would be voluntary. Ten-thousand jobs is a huge number, and it will be difficult for BT to shed that amount in...
[November 13, 2008, 12:25]
Oil Company Simplifies IT Administration, Saves Money With Switch to Microsoft
White Papers Kerr-McGee operates oil and natural gas fields onshore in the U.S.the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, and China's Bohai Bay. Seeking a more centralized, cost-effective, and scalable solution, Kerr-McGee chose Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 to...
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
