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Government To Build New Email And Surfing Surveillance Centre
News A new centre for monitoring email and Internet communications is to be built by NCIS (National Criminal Intelligence Service) at the cost of £25m, the government said Tuesday. She adds that the new centre will not be used to monitor email but to...
[May 2, 2000, 9:25]
Police Slammed For 'hysterical' Response To EU Privacy Directive
News The National Crime Intelligence Squad (NCIS) last week issued what Caspar Bowden, director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, called a "hysterical" response to the planned European directive on data protection and privacy in the...
[August 13, 2001, 12:52]
Project Trawler: Cyber Crime In The UK
News Project Trawler -- the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) three-year study into cyber crime in the UK -- has found that paedophiles and criminals using the Net for secure communication are the two biggest problems facing law enforcement...
[June 22, 1999, 17:05]
ISPs Blast Police Ignorance
News ISPs accused police investigators of making ridiculous and potentially illegal requests for information on customers Tuesday, despite the director of NCIS stating that he doesn't wish to see intrusive Internet surveillance.
[January 17, 2001, 9:22]
Net Closes On Thousands Of UK Paedophiles
News The FBI has passed details of 7,272 UK residents who paid to access paedophilic images to the UK's National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), according to a report in The Sunday Telegraph. NCIS is thought to have used some of this information...
[August 5, 2002, 9:50]
Online Fraud Used As Political Football
News According to the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), an upsurge in online swindling demands legislation in the form of the RIP Bill, which gives the police powers to monitor email and Internet browsing.
[July 19, 2000, 16:39]
Government To Launch Cyber Crime Unit
News The proposed unit has been under discussion since June last year, when the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), published a detailed study into cybercrime. The NCIS welcomed the news: "This money is for the development of the unit and we...
[January 18, 2000, 10:40]
Police Get Go Ahead For Cyber Crime Squad
News As previously reported on ZDNet News, the unit -- dedicated to solving computer and Internet crimes ranging from paedophile activities, software piracy, money laundering and virus-spreading -- will be led by police intelligence organisation NCIS...
[October 26, 1999, 15:12]
Jane Wakefield: Anarchy In The UK
News Then a few anarchists got out of hand in London last June and suddenly director general of NCIS, John Abbot had what he wanted -- the great unwashed organised their protests via the Net leading him to dub it "a facilitator for anarchy".
[May 2, 2000, 12:42]
Home Office Backs Seven-year Data Retention Laws
News The revelation dates back to a National Crime Intelligence Squad (NCIS) report leaked to The Observer in December 2000, which called for the establishment of a traffic data warehouse where communications data would be stored for seven years.
[September 28, 2001, 15:54]
Companies Warned Over Corporate Identity Theft
News The National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), which works with the UK's law enforcement agencies to fight organised crime, is concerned about this growing phenomenon because the general population is often not computer-literate enough to tell...
[October 28, 2003, 16:30]
Government Denies Entrapment Reports
News The government's stance appears steadfast: both the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the National Crime Intelligence Squad (NCIS) have confirmed discussions with Blair's Labour administration on the matter.
[October 30, 2000, 16:41]
SCO To Attack Validity Of Linux Licence
Talkback selm=558@ncis.tis.llnl.gov Berch (mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov) GNU General Public License homepage http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU GPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
[August 15, 2003, 15:24]
Home Office Says 'no' To Cybercrime Figures
News Launching the NHTCU, deputy director general of NCIS Roger Gaspar admitted his concern over the lack of statistical evidence available on cybercrime. The National Crime Intelligence Squad (NCIS), which published its Project Trawler report in 1999...
[April 20, 2001, 15:10]
Government Defends New Cyber-snooping Powers
News Pointing to the NCIS (National Criminal Intelligence Service) survey into computer crime -- Operation Trawler -- he claimed that the Internet is "increasingly used for crimes" but neither the minister nor NCIS's survey gives any indication of the...
[November 19, 1999, 16:22]
Big Brother Awards Highlight Digital Privacy Threats
News The NCIS warehousing proposal beat into second place the Electoral Reform Society which was nominated for its patronage of a report by the Independent Commission on alternative voting methods which, said the judges, provides a "woefully scant...
[March 5, 2002, 12:12]
Hooligans On The Net? Experts Lash Out At Media
News Claims that soccer hooligans use the Internet to organise violence have been attacked by the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and other organisations, all of which claim the issue is being blown...
[August 9, 1999, 16:09]
High-tech Cops Hit Back Against ISP Claims
Talkback Since Operation Ore has to date netted only 1 solitary actual child abuser out of 3500 arrests, cost about £35 million pounds to regional police forces, on top of tying the NCIS in knots, perhaps not the 'best' targetted police activity of recent...
[April 5, 2004, 20:07]
Police Swoop On Internet Paedophiles
News The operation, code-named "Ore", was coordinated by the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS). The NCIS said in a statement that this was the first time that they had successfully targeted people suspected of using the Internet to buy...
[May 20, 2002, 16:56]
Surveillance: How Encryption Works - Part 2
News But the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) has called for real-time access to data, to prevent lawbreakers from being able to use encryption to keep their communications secret. This has led some in the encryption field to suspect NCIS...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
