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Researchers weigh publication, prosecution
News For example, Dutch cryptographer Niels Ferguson recently refused to publish news of an alleged flaw in Intel technology designed to protect digital video, saying he feared prosecution under the DMCA. I have decided to censor myself and not publish...
[August 16, 2001, 9:20]
Users face prosecution if email is illegal
News A case, presently under review by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), illustrates that users could face prosecution for possession of illegal data on computers, even if they are oblivious to its existence, or have not been involved in its creation.
[November 27, 1998, 14:32]
CPS refuses Nasa-hacker UK prosecution
Blog The Crown Prosecution Service has decided not to prosecute self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon in the UK. A UK prosecution would effectively have saved him from that. Despite growing support for McKinnon from parliamentarians and legal experts...
[February 26, 2009, 12:53]
Deadline set for Nasa-hacker prosecution decision
News The Crown Prosecution Service will give a decision in the next four weeks as to whether it will prosecute Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon. However, a prosecution in the UK by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) would mean the self-confessed hacker would...
[January 15, 2009, 15:39]
Banks face prosecution over Indian call centre leak
News UK banks have been warned they face prosecution for breaching the Data Protection Act after an undercover reporter was sold the bank account details of 1,000 UK customers by a call centre worker in India.
[June 23, 2005, 16:40]
UK spammers set to avoid prosecution until 2005
News It's possible there could be a prosecution towards the end of this year, in November or December. Legislation brought in last year to clamp down on UK companies who send unsolicited junk mail over the Internet is unlikely to result in any...
[April 16, 2004, 12:50]
Blind man faces prosecution for listening to child porn
News Inspector Terry Jones at Greater Manchester's Obscene Publications Unit said that in order to convict a blind man in Britain for possessing child pornography, the prosecution would need to prove that the suspect was knowingly downloading indecent...
[June 25, 2001, 18:24]
Campaigner fights on for BT-Phorm prosecution
News Despite police indifference, a privacy activist is continuing to push for prosecution of BT and Phorm for trials conducted in 2006 and 2007. Alexander Hanff [pictured], a technologist who campaigns against Phorm's targeted advertising product...
[October 15, 2008, 15:01]
Nasa hacker: I'm safe until prosecution decision
News A UK prosecution would enable McKinnon to avoid extradition to the US. He does deny US prosecution allegations that he caused over $700,000 (£430,000) worth of damage to military systems by deleting files.
[January 21, 2009, 11:03]
Nasa hacker to wait longer for prosecution decision
Blog The Crown Prosecution Service has said that self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon will have to wait to find out whether he will be prosecuted in the UK. A UK prosecution would mean that McKinnon would avoid extradition to the US, to face charges...
[February 16, 2009, 12:46]
CPS refuses Nasa-hacker UK prosecution
Blog Comment They didn't even try!
[February 26, 2009, 16:24]
Airline threatened with prosecution over data-matching
Talkback Following Sep 11th and the depth of American sentiment, both real and generated, one can understand how the administrators of any company, seeking neither to be made pariahs' nor have politically sublime and negative actions carried out against...
[September 23, 2003, 12:00]
UK spammers set to avoid prosecution until 2005
Talkback 544 spam emails in two days. It's all very well the government trying to get broadband into every home but.Something needs to be done about it, and fast
[April 19, 2004, 18:27]
File-swappers fear prosecution
Talkback You would think the RIAA would have figured out by now that they're getting nowhere.many people have been startled by these threats but when nothing happens to them they're just going to come back even stronger.
[February 7, 2004, 1:39]
Banks face prosecution over Indian call centre leak
Talkback DATA PROTECTION LAWS ARE SUFFICIENT IN INDIA. The proposed change in the Information Technology Act, 2000 for conferring data protection or its separate enactment is not only unwarranted but is equally based on misinterpretation of the provisions...
[June 23, 2005, 17:03]
Banks face prosecution over Indian call centre leak
Talkback US issue was different. What happened was that the information was on a hard drive which was lost during shipment so it wasnt a case of data being sold. It was a case o hardware going missing. Although I do agree the data theft can occur anywhere...
[June 24, 2005, 9:06]
Three indicted in largest-ever US hacking prosecution
News Two Russians and a Florida man were charged on Monday with hacking into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven and the Hannaford Brothers supermarket chain, and stealing data related to more than 130 million credit and debit cards.
[August 18, 2009, 9:17]
Nasa hacker legal team awaits prosecution decision
Video Karen Todner, the solicitor for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon, talks to ZDNet UK about McKinnon's prospects of avoiding extradition to the US by confessing to UK computer crimes
[January 16, 2009, 12:19]
eBay Germany domain hijack: No prosecution imminent
News A school pupil who admitted taking ownership of the eBay Germany domain will not face charges immediately as eBay Germany first wants to investigate the incident further, according to ZDNet Germany. The 19-year-old from Helmstedt, Lower Saxony...
[September 8, 2004, 17:15]
File-swappers fear prosecution
News The record industry's plan to sue individuals who trade songs online has caused a precipitous drop in the use of file-swapping applications, according to one Internet ratings service. Nielsen/Netratings, a company that monitors Web traffic and...
[July 15, 2003, 9:05]
