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Cybercrime Laws 'will Harm Security Research'
News The Police and Justice Bill 2006, which received Royal Assent last Wednesday, contains amendments to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 that alter the law surrounding the creation and distribution of 'dual use' software tools.
[November 17, 2006, 12:47]
Home Office To Block Lib Dem MP's Entrapment Proposal
News The Home Office has said it will block entrapment proposals tabled for inclusion in the Criminal Justice and Police Bill that would grant police new powers to crack down on Internet paedophiles. Laws allowing police officers to "entrap" Net...
[February 20, 2001, 6:10]
Government To Ban 'hate Emails'
News The government will table an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Police Bill on Thursday that will, if successful, ban hate emails and hate text messages. The Criminal Justice and Police Bill is currently going through parliament and Thursday's...
[February 22, 2001, 7:10]
Experts Question Plans To Ban Hate Email
News The government wants to change the Criminal Justice and Police Bill to ban hate emails and hate text messages. The Criminal Justice and Police Bill is currently going through Parliament and Thursday's changes are part of a package of regulations...
[February 23, 2001, 9:12]
Lord Battles Government Over Cybercrime Laws
News The UK government is currently trying to update the CMA through amendments in the Police and Justice Bill 2006, which will be debated in the House of Lords this week. As it stands, paragraph 1b of Clause 41 of the Police and Justice Bill would make...
[June 20, 2006, 14:50]
Home Office 'wrong' Over Criminalisation Of IT Pros
News Critics of the amendment to Section 42 of the Police and Justice Bill, which would modify the CMA, say a clause criminalising those creating software tools that are likely to be used for hacking would catch legitimate developers too.
[July 19, 2006, 16:45]
Straw Makes Internet Grooming An Election Issue
News Liberal Democrat MP Paul Burstow is accusing the Home Office of U-turning on its decision to block his "grooming" proposal originally tabled for inclusion in the Criminal Justice and Police Bill. It obviously takes the heat of a general election...
[May 21, 2001, 13:37]
Hackers Face Life Sentence
News Smith heads a subcommittee on crime, which held hearings that drew endorsements of CSEA from a top Justice Department official and executives from Microsoft and WorldCom. At the urging of the Justice Department, Smith's subcommittee voted in...
[July 16, 2002, 12:48]
Denial Of Service Attacks Outlawed
News Among the provisions of the Police and Justice Bill 2006, which gained Royal Assent on Wednesday, is a clause that makes it an offence to impair the operation of any computer system. By that time amendments to the CMA had been included in the...
[November 10, 2006, 16:30]
CMA To Get Backdoor Update
News A Police and Justice Bill has been introduced today by the Home Office which includes sections relating specifically to the modernisation of UK law to better deal with criminals who have committed acts of cybercrime.
[January 26, 2006, 14:55]
Lord Vows To Fight Cybercrime Laws
News Lord Northesk, a Conservative peer, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that an amendment to the Police and Justice Bill 2006 will potentially create a situation where the police would have to prosecute themselves.
[May 25, 2006, 16:05]
DoJ May Regret Battling Google Over Porn Probe
News The US Department of Justice's attempt to compel Google to divulge millions of search records could backfire on police and prosecutors. Ohm, the former Justice Department prosecutor, said any federal appeals court that makes a sweeping proclamation...
[February 22, 2006, 12:30]
Attorney General Takes Controversial Act On Tour
News By a 309-to-118 vote last month, the US House of Representatives dismissed the entreaties of the Justice Department and blocked the part of the law that permitted police to seek a court order that let them surreptitiously enter a home or business.
[August 21, 2003, 11:15]
The Year Ahead: Is The Internet Becoming Safer For Children?
News With the dust barely settled on Wonderland, the Home Office blocked an entrapment proposal one week later tabled for inclusion in the Criminal Justice and Police Bill, which would allow police officers to pose as children in Internet chatrooms to...
[January 1, 2002, 6:31]
US Homeland Security To Police The Net
News The final bill prohibits the Justice Department's proposed citizen-informant program called TIPS (Terrorist Information and Prevention System) and rejects "the development of a national identification system or card.
[November 21, 2002, 11:55]
Homeland Security Bill Becomes US Law
News The final law prohibits the Justice Department's proposed citizen-informant programme called TIPS (terrorist information and prevention system) and rejects "the development of a national identification system or card.
[November 26, 2002, 11:41]
US Considers Jailing Hackers For Life
News Smith heads a subcommittee on crime, which held hearings that drew endorsements of CSEA from a top Justice Department official and executives from Microsoft and WorldCom. CSEA expands the ability of police to conduct Internet or telephone...
[November 14, 2002, 15:16]
Russia Gets Ready To Gag Online Dissent
News Another section says the Justice Ministry, the Press Ministry or public prosecutors may shut down any for-profit, nonprofit or religious organization deemed extremist without first obtaining a court order.
[June 25, 2002, 9:29]
UK Law Will Criminalise IT Pros, Say Experts
News The Police and Justice Bill will update the UK's existing Computer Misuse Act (CMA), bringing in new powers to address the rise of organised cybercriminals and offences such as denial-of-service attacks.
[May 19, 2006, 14:15]
It's Time For The Government Misuse Act
Leader The Police and Justice Bill passed by the House of Commons earlier this month and currently residing in the Lords contains an update to the CMA that lawmakers no doubt formulated in good faith. Section 41 of the bill includes a new offence of...
[May 22, 2006, 15:45]
