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UK Law Failing To Nail Spammers
News According to Richard Allan MP, Liberal Democrat member for Sheffield Hallam, the absence of any British prosecutions against spammers is a sign that UK ISPs have been doing a good job at refusing to host spammers on their networks.
[December 13, 2004, 17:10]
Broadband Road-digging Row Heats Up
News Richard Allan, Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam told ZDNet recently that he is concerned that broadband rollout will be damaged if lane rental is implemented nationwide, as could happen next year.
[May 28, 2002, 17:58]
MPs Turn To Web For Votes
News Richard Allan, Barbara Follett and Sir George Young each have a Web page that constituents can use to contact them by email, and even read details of their recent activities. Richard Allan, Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam, agreed that...
[October 30, 2001, 13:06]
Public Meeting On Patents Excludes Anti-patent Campaigners
News Richard Allan, a Liberal Democrat MP who is sympathetic to the concerns of patent campaigners, said that he thinks it is important that Pollock and Heald are allowed to attend the meeting, so he has written to the UKPO to ask if they can be invited.
[December 7, 2004, 15:55]
Why Killing 80,000 Desktops Is Worse Than Careless
News Following the news on Friday that around 80,000 desktop machines may have crashed in the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) following a routine upgrade, ZDNet UK spoke with the Liberal Democrat IT spokesperson Richard Allan MP about the dangers...
[November 26, 2004, 14:15]
Election Leaves Power Vacuum In MP's Tech Group
News Richard Allan, former Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam, announced his decision to step down from politics back in April, and has left his position as joint vice-chair of APIG. Richard Allan White, a former IT systems analyst who acted as...
[May 6, 2005, 14:30]
Cybercrime-fighting MP To Step Down
News The UK Parliament is set to lose one of its most tech-savvy politicians and IT champions at the forthcoming general election when Liberal Democrat MP Richard Allan stands down. Allan has been MP for Sheffield Hallam since he was first elected in...
[April 11, 2005, 10:45]
EDS: The Single Point Of Failure
Leader That was the reaction from Liberal Democrat IT spokesperson Richard Allan to the spectacular desktop crash at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) last week. As the Liberal Democrats' Allan points out: "To be able to make this kind of mistake...
[November 29, 2004, 12:35]
70's Technology Could Thwart RIP Bill
News Revelations that the RIP bill can be by-passed using long-standing steganographic and cryptographic technologies could signal the death blow to the government's Internet snooping plans, according to Liberal Democrat MP Richard Allan.
[June 29, 2000, 14:07]
SCO Legal Fight 'hampering' Adoption Of Linux In Government
News Richard Allan MP, the Liberal Democrat IT spokesman, warned on Wednesday that uncertainty over SCO's claim that Linux infringes its Unix copyrights will deter some public-sector employees from breaking away from proprietary software.
[April 21, 2004, 16:25]
Prime Minister Admits Being A Technophobe
News During a session of the Parliamentary liaison committee on Monday, the Liberal Democrat IT spokesman Richard Allan asked if it was true that on a 'personal level' the Prime Minister was something of a technophobe.
[February 9, 2005, 12:50]
Election 2001: Lib Dems Say Labour's IT Strategy Is Not Working
News Speaking to ZDNet UK, Liberal Democrat IT spokesman Richard Allan criticised the government for not moving faster in creating new legislation to regulate the communications industry -- a mistake which he believes is partially responsible for the...
[May 24, 2001, 16:11]
Lib Dems Back Labour's Choice Of E-minister
News According to Richard Allan, IT spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, Alexander's clout will help him to fight for the UK's e-business sector within government. I think Gordon Brown has put his man into the job of e-minister, and it's an indication...
[June 13, 2001, 15:06]
MPs Ponder Whether 'benign' Hacking Should Be Legal
News Today, the primary threat from hackers is to the network, rather than to individual computers, and if the network goes down we've got problems," said Richard Allan MP, joint vice-chairman of APIG. And while Allan is adamant that tough action is...
[April 26, 2004, 17:25]
No ID Cards Before The Election
News Liberal Democrat MP Richard Allan told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com the government should take the opportunity to rethink its "half-baked" ID card proposals after the election, which Labour and Tony Blair are expected to win.
[March 16, 2005, 16:45]
Cisco: Digital Switchover Should Favour Broadband
News That would be a missed opportunity because we believe there is a whole range of innovative services, in part broadband-like services that have a two-way channel, that could be used," said Richard Allan, Cisco's European director of government...
[October 19, 2007, 8:07]
Government Rules Out Wider Spam Protection - For Now
News Any legitimate interest that businesses have in sending and receiving emails advertising useful products is being drowned by the tide of spam that is washing up in all our mailboxes at present," said Richard Allan MP, joint vice-chairman of APIG.
[April 7, 2004, 16:10]
Firms Have Little Faith In E-government - Report
News Only 15 percent believe the government is helping to the UK keep pace with worldwide developments in e-commerce and 35 percent believe that Richard Branson would make a better e-envoy than Alex Allan.
[May 22, 2000, 9:32]
Clarke Joins Latest Cyberterror Debate
News Members include Derek Wyatt MP, chairman of the All Party Internet Group, and Richard Allan MP, chairman of the European Information Society Group. Richard Clarke, the former White House cyber security advisor, has criticised a UK company for using...
[February 11, 2005, 13:25]
Indymedia Server Seizure 'may Have Breached RIPA'
News Concerned by the execution of a foreign court order on UK soil, Liberal Democrat IT spokesman Richard Allan MP tabled a parliamentary question asking what the Home Office's involvement was. Allan said that if this is true then the seizure may have...
[October 22, 2004, 9:57]
