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Roaming Legislation Inches Closer
Blog Viv Reding's proposed legislation to put a serious cap on roaming charges passed another stage today, as it was OK'd by the Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Committee of the European Parliament. Soon after that, hopefully, we should have some...
[April 12, 2007, 17:03]
"Legislation: One Of The Key Pillars In The Fight Against Spam"
White Papers The Coalition is calling for the Hong Kong government to begin public consultation on anti-spam legislation. Such legislation is one of the key pillars in the fight against spam, along with training of IT professionals and business users.
[April 24, 2004, 0:05]
Legislation Alone Won't Solve Spyware Problem
White Papers In fact, such legislation may include elements, such as requirements to support tracing the source of spyware, that could have unintended consequences. Gartner is skeptical about the ability of the U.S.
[December 16, 2004, 2:00]
Identity Theft And U.S. Data Protection Legislation: An Overview
White Papers This white paper provides an overview of current and pending legislation that affects data protection and privacy, outlining the requirements set forth by each and identifying how encryption can help organizations to achieve compliance with these...
[May 26, 2006, 1:00]
Mobile Operators Attack 'stifling' EC Legislation
News Current EU-wide traditional or linear broadcasting regulations do not prohibit product placement — legislation is currently left to individual member states. Opponents to the legislation include the UK Government, which last month called the...
[July 26, 2006, 13:10]
Net Politics Focus: House Of Reps. Passes Copyright Legislation
News House of Representatives Tuesday passed legislation to strengthen copyright on the Internet. After nearly three years of often divisive debate, the U.S. The action handed a hard-fought victory to software, recording and motion picture industries...
[August 6, 1998, 16:50]
Disability Legislation Puts Onus On IT Managers
News Public sector IT managers will need to be more active about tackling inclusion issues under new legislation due to come into force in December, a disability charity has warned. The Disability Equality Duty (DED) is a general regulation that...
[October 31, 2006, 12:54]
Retrospective Legislation
Talkback The Conservative leader must make it very clear that he will introduce retrospective legislation to enable such contracts entered into have a non compensatory cancellation retrospectively added. While actual cost incurred must be duly considered...
[May 30, 2008, 9:10]
Contract Management Addresses The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002: Identifying The Benefits Of UpsideContract Under The SOA Legislation
White Papers This legislation helps protect the interests of shareholders from misleading corporate reporting and the potentially fraudulent acts of company managers. In 2002, the US federal government, in an attempt to restore investor confidence in the US...
[December 9, 2004, 2:00]
Throwing The Book At Spam: Despite Rising Calls For National Spam Legislation, It's Proving Tricky To Craft Loophole-Free Anti-Spam Laws
White Papers Some states have had statutes on the books for several years that attempt to control UCE (unsolicited commercial e-mail), and in recent months, many more states added legislation. E-mail users, besieged by a vast array of fraudulent and/or obscene...
[June 5, 2004, 1:03]
Recycling Legislation Finally Enforced
News Legislation designed to put the financial burden for recycling old technology on suppliers and manufacturers rather than all tax payers has finally been fully introduced and enforced. Jane Southworth, senior associate in the regulatory group at...
[July 2, 2007, 17:50]
Legislation Needed To 'prevent DRM And Patent Abuses'
News Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, told the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG) that tougher legislation was needed to stop technology unfairly restricting what a user or customer can do with the...
[February 3, 2006, 16:35]
Is New Legislation Protecting Contractors?
Talkback I would say that this new legislation is being widely abused by recruitment businesses who fear that they will lose out because of these changes. According to agencies, the reason these questions are being asked if because of this new legislation.
[December 9, 2004, 18:18]
Recycling Legislation Delayed Six Months - Again
News The implementation of legislation designed to make manufacturers and consumers of electronic equipment more responsible for its disposal has been delayed by a further six months due to a lack of sufficient infrastructure to manage the task.
[August 10, 2005, 17:55]
Brace Yourself For Green Legislation
Leader Basically, WEEEadds to the growing raft of international legislation forcing manufacturers and consumers of electronic equipment to finally take some responsibility for the by-products of the upgrade culture they have cultivated and embraced over...
[September 9, 2004, 13:05]
Can Laws Block Spam? - An Analysis Of The Effect Of International Spam Legislation
White Papers The United States, the European Community, Australia, and the United Kingdom have all recently implemented legislation regulating the control and handling of unsolicited commercial e-mails. However, the question remains that, “Can spam ever be...
[May 1, 2004, 1:03]
Education, Not Legislation Will Reduce E-crimes
News The paper, published by e-commerce lobby group EURIM, and think tank The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), argues that although some legislation is required to fight Internet-based crimes, alone, it will make no difference unless backed...
[December 11, 2003, 16:40]
Anti-Spam Legislation: Will CAN-SPAM And Related Laws Protect Your Organisation?
White Papers US anti-spam legislation came into effect on January 1 that could send spammers to jail. However, Sophos, a world leader in protecting businesses against viruses and spam, believes that the legislation will not reduce spam and has the potential to...
[May 2, 2004, 0:00]
Legislation Needed To 'prevent DRM And Patent Abuses'
Talkback Microsoft have broken a few laws, but an extremely high % of linux users are nothing but thieves (using the word pirate is just too weak) Business has a right to prevent their music and software being stolen, and most the people who whine about DRM...
[February 5, 2006, 22:17]
Legislation Needed To 'prevent DRM And Patent Abuses'
Talkback I'm not even going to dignify the last post with a response. Idiot.
[February 6, 2006, 8:47]
