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Watchdog aims to compel data-breach confessions
News The National Consumer Council watchdog is calling on lawmakers to force businesses to confess to data breaches. The National Consumer Council (NCC) is petitioning the EU to draft legal powers to compel businesses and banks to inform customers when...
[September 2, 2008, 9:22]
Companies urged to tell customers of data breaches
News UK companies should warn customers if their personal data has been put at risk, according to the National Consumer Council. Speaking at a Westminster eForum event, Anna Fielder, a policy consultant with the National Consumer Council (NCC), said UK...
[July 17, 2007, 14:31]
Councils offered e-projects for download
News Local authorities will be able to search and download products developed by the 22 National Projects for e-government through a catalogue set up by West Sussex County Council, it was announced on 22 March 2005.
[March 22, 2005, 12:35]
U.S. backs off private monitoring
News The proposed Federal Intrusion Detection Network (FIDNET) plan, details of which were revealed by the New York Times Wednesday, has been in the works for at least a year, a National Security Council spokesman told ZDNN.
[July 29, 1999, 10:53]
ISPs must learn from 11 September
News The National Research Council's report, however, warns that Internet service providers must prepare for future emergencies. The council is a private, non-profit institution that provides science and technology advice under congressional charter.
[November 21, 2002, 13:54]
Local gov't CIOs to shape national IT policy
News The group will meet three times per year and report to the main Government CIO Council, allowing local government issues to be put on the national CIO agenda. The Local Government CIO Council met for the first time on 1 April after being set up by...
[April 3, 2008, 8:57]
Memo reveals multiple breaches of ID card database
News The breaches of the Customer Information System (CIS), which is run by the Department of Work and Pensions, were revealed in a DWP memo to housing benefit and council tax benefit staff on 15 January. If council staff are able to snoop at our...
[February 25, 2009, 15:59]
National open source centre comes to Birmingham
News Founding partners of the NOC include the National Computing Centre, Birmingham City Council and the council-led Digital Birmingham initiative, which aims to build an IT future for a city with an industrial past.
[October 25, 2006, 16:00]
Do we need a second Internet?
News This idea may be ridiculed and is out there.but we need to bifurcate cyberspace: we need to have a secure zone in cyberspace and then we can leave the rest of it as it is today," said Richard Clarke, the National Security Council's national...
[December 11, 2000, 9:33]
National IT and telecoms academy seeks sponsors
News A National Skills Academy NSA network is being established by the Learning and Skills Council, the Department for Education and Skills, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Sector Skills Development Agency.
[February 7, 2007, 7:24]
Gov't mobile working project saved from axe
News Project Nomad has initially been split into two entities - Nomad North and Nomad Scotland — and will be run by teams based at Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and Aberdeenshire Council, respectively.
[November 5, 2009, 8:50]
London council goes wireless
News Lewisham Council has created a model designed to help other local authorities around the UK offer e-government services over a wireless broadband infrastructure. Steve Bullock, mayor of Lewisham, said he hopes mobile technology will prove...
[September 10, 2004, 15:25]
EU Parliament forgives Council for adopting patent directive
Talkback The ministerial officials of course will not bring it into order, because the violation served what in their eyes is a noble cause: assuring that national parliaments don't get any opportunity to make Council processes "inefficient".
[April 1, 2005, 2:31]
Obama urged to appoint cybersecurity chief
News Along with the new office, Obama should establish a new cyberspace directorate in the National Security Council that absorbs existing Homeland Security Council functions, the commission recommended. The US should encourage other nations to ratify...
[December 10, 2008, 8:35]
European 'internet freedom' law agreed
News Europe is set to get a major overhaul of its telecoms regulation, after the European Parliament and Council of Telecoms Ministers reached a compromise on the rights of internet users across the continent.
[November 5, 2009, 12:11]
EC: We'd accept software patent defeat
News The EU Council, which represents the national governments of member states, formally endorsed the draft directive on the "patentability of computer-implemented inventions" on Monday morning, despite a resolution from Parliament asking for the...
[March 9, 2005, 11:45]
Obama to appoint US cybersecurity co-ordinator
News The new co-ordinator's authority will be shared between the National Economic Council and the National Security Council. President Obama on Friday said the US government is "not as prepared" as it should be to respond to disruptions caused by...
[June 1, 2009, 14:46]
Echelon: The French fight back
News If they are true, we will then be looking for a statement from the Council of Ministers which represents the national governments. A victory for Nataf will prompt the Council of Ministers to question whether US activity contravened European law.
[June 29, 2000, 11:13]
EC: New net-neutrality law is unnecessary
News The rest of the package had previously been agreed between parliamentarians and the Council of Telecoms Ministers — the body that needs to give its final approval if the package is to become law — but the Council remains opposed to the amendment.
[June 12, 2009, 16:17]
European Parliament accepts telecoms competition laws
News All six respond to the Lisbon European Council's call for a liberalised internal telecoms market by the end of 2001 to diminish the gap between the European and US telecommunications industry, and pave the way to a digital society.
[December 13, 2001, 16:20]
