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Parliament 'didn't understand RIP Act'
News The House of Lords gave more time to scrutinising RIPA than the House of Commons, and no one in the House of Lords fully understood all of RIPA's intricacies," said Lord Phillips, who described RIPA's passage through Parliament as a "nightmare".
[November 6, 2003, 16:35]
Parliament PCs struck by Downadup virus
News Engineers at parliament are working to "act swiftly to clean the computers that are infected", according to the email, the text of which was forwarded to ZDNet UK's sister site, silicon.com, by a parliamentary spokesman.
[March 30, 2009, 8:28]
Parliament to get wireless network
News The UK Parliament is to set up a wireless IT network giving remote access to data to politicians from both houses and their staff. The system, which will link up with Parliament's main IT infrastructure, will make data available over mobile phones...
[August 9, 2004, 12:50]
Parliament to get an 'electronic community'
News The UK government has set up a new system for transferring information between Parliament and Whitehall departments. Peter Hain, the leader of the House of Commons, has launched a system for electronically transferring information between...
[November 25, 2004, 11:50]
Patents directive wins European Parliament OK
News The European Parliament has voted to approve a highly controversial directive governing the patentability of computer-implemented inventions -- including software -- but with amendments that appear to be a victory for critics of the original...
[September 24, 2003, 18:05]
Software patent fight moves to Parliament
News According to the DTI, the EC's vote has removed many of the changes introduced last year by the European Parliament that would have limited the degree to which software programs could be patented. British companies and citizens who oppose the...
[May 21, 2004, 12:10]
Lords call for parliament to get more online
News A House of Lords committee has called for parliament to make greater use of the internet to engage with the public. Creating connections between people and Parliament, that says the House should do more to communicate its activity and make it...
[July 17, 2009, 15:49]
EU Parliament forgives Council for adopting patent directive
Talkback The European Parliament spokesman quoted in the article is not an MEP - he is the spokesman for the JURI committee. Thanks for your comments.
[April 1, 2005, 9:49]
Bugbear hits Australian parliament
News The Bugbear virus is causing havoc for the second time in a month at Australia's Parliament House in Canberra, interrupting the government's operations and highlighting dangerous security flaws. It seems that the Bugbear virus has reoccurred with...
[October 23, 2002, 9:12]
EU Parliament forgives Council for adopting patent directive
Talkback The EU Parliament has more important things to do then wasting time on forgiving the EU Council. Specificly to boot out Software Patents completely in whatever way they please. Because how things are done in the EU doesn't seem to matter any way.
[April 2, 2005, 0:55]
Hackers attacked parliament using WMF exploit
Talkback There is nothing in the story to indicate that parliament was attacked - only the government. Parliament and the government are in fact two different institutions! Er.the title of this article is wrong.
[January 24, 2006, 18:17]
European Parliament cries foul over patent directive
News The European Parliament (EP) and the Danish parliament are investigating whether the EU Council broke procedural rules by adopting the draft directive on software patents in the face of opposition from ministers.
[March 9, 2005, 12:30]
EU Parliament rejects data retention plans
News Legislation that would require telephone companies and internet service providers (ISPs) to save information about customers' communications is set to proceed despite being rejected by the European parliament.
[June 10, 2005, 10:00]
European Parliament restricts access to personal data
News The European Parliament (EP) Civil Liberties Committee approved a report by the radical MEP Marco Cappato on Wednesday, in favour of a strict regulation of law enforcement authorities' access to personal data in the electronic communications sector.
[July 12, 2001, 15:54]
Tories champion Nasa hacker in parliament
News The Conservative Party has championed the case of Gary McKinnon, the self-confessed Nasa hacker, in an opposition day debate in parliament. However, home secretary Alan Johnson told parliament that the current government will not respond to the...
[July 15, 2009, 17:42]
ID card compromise reached in Parliament
News Both houses of Parliament have agreed to a compromise proposal that will see ID cards become mandatory for passport holders by 2010. Previously the ID cards bill, which the House of Lords has rejected five times over the past few weeks, required...
[March 30, 2006, 17:30]
European Parliament accepts telecoms competition laws
News The European Parliament has accepted a compromise telecom package to open up the telecommunications market to internal competition. The implications will be huge," said a spokeswoman at the European Parliament (EP).
[December 13, 2001, 16:20]
Australian parliament fights spyware outbreak
News Peter Ward, group assistant secretary for Parliamentary Services, denies claims that spyware is in any way rampant in the Australian Parliament House, and says it is not burdening the system in anyway.
[July 12, 2004, 9:35]
European Parliament blocks patent liberalisation
News The European Parliament on Wednesday voted against a proposal that would have allowed companies to defend nationally granted patents throughout the EU region. Although the Parliament passed the majority of the resolution, it voted against the...
[March 16, 2006, 9:35]
EU parliament demands patent restart
News The battle to prevent software patents being introduced in Europe received a major boost on Wednesday afternoon when the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) of the European Parliament (EP) demanded that the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive...
[February 3, 2005, 10:20]
