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Information Commissioner To Demand Greater Powers
Blog Richard Thomas is going to ask Parliament that he be given the power to force organisations to submit to inspections and audits from his office, the ICO, reports Out-Law.com. Parliament's Home Affairs Select Committee is currently conducting an...
[May 1, 2007, 17:05]
ICO Urges Gov't To Retain Data-theft Laws
News Pressure is building on parliament to quash part of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill that would mean those buying or selling data would face prison (clause 76). The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said it is vital the...
[April 2, 2008, 9:30]
Australia Censors The Net
News Although the law has passed through parliament, exact details of the workings of the bill has yet to be worked out Senator Alston told ZDNet Australia Wednesday. After months of controversy, the Broadcasting (Online Services) Amendment Act has...
[July 2, 1999, 9:16]
French MPs Dump Windows For Linux
News A spokesperson for the parliament's administration said a decision as to the choice of Linux distribution and email client hasn't yet been taken. Currently, some of the parliament's servers have been running Linux, with Apache web servers and the...
[November 27, 2006, 8:03]
Echelon: Sigint Under The Spotlight
News But it drew little attention until a 1997 European Parliament report highlighted new revelations about Echelon in a book published in New Zealand the year before. The European Parliament has continued to debate the issue.
[June 30, 2000, 9:35]
French MPs Choose Linux Over Windows
News From the next session of parliament, 1,154 desks will feature the Linux-based PCs. At the time of the latest IT refresh for parliamentary assistants, France's parliament, the National Assembly, decided to switch from Windows to Linux, allowing the...
[March 13, 2007, 9:03]
ID Card Bill To Test New Government
News Any new bill may not face such a comfortable passage through parliament in light of Labour's reduced majority. Out of the 19 Labour MPs who voted against the government, 16 have been returned to parliament (with the remaining three standing down...
[May 9, 2005, 10:00]
Big Brother Awards Nominees Plumb New Depths
News In their nominations for Worst Public Servant, they are joined by Euro MP Michael Cashman for his "unrelenting opposition in the European Parliament to controls over email spam. Sir Richard Wilson earned his nominations, said the judges, for "his...
[February 25, 2002, 11:13]
European Software Patents Inch Closer
News Controversial changes to the European Union's software patent regime have moved a step closer to legislation with a vote by the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (Juri) on Tuesday.
[June 18, 2003, 14:04]
SuSE Linux Picks Up Hammer
News He is also focusing on business clients while continuing to embrace the Linux and open-source community, and last but not least, managing the German parliament's mandate to equip its servers with SuSE Linux.
[March 14, 2002, 15:09]
Election Leaves Power Vacuum In MP's Tech Group
News White, a former IT systems analyst who acted as treasurer of the group, is one of two high-profile tech-savvy MPs to leave parliament in this election. Richard Allan, former Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam, announced his decision to step...
[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]
Watchdog: HMRC Did Breach Data Laws
News Alistair Darling, the chancellor of the exchequer, presented Poynter's interim findings to Parliament on Monday. It is clear that there was a breach of data-protection requirements," said Richard Thomas, the information commissioner.
[December 18, 2007, 13:54]
MPs Turn To Web For Votes
News If your Member of Parliament suddenly launches a personal Web site with online voting and a chat room in the next few months, then approach it with caution. Richard Allan, Barbara Follett and Sir George Young each have a Web page that constituents...
[October 30, 2001, 13:06]
Lord Vows To Fight Cybercrime Laws
News But part b) of section 41 of the bill does has some support in parliament. Dr Richard Clayton of Cambridge University told ZDNet UK last week that part (b), as currently laid out, would catch a wide range of IT tools and activities that are not...
[May 25, 2006, 16:05]
Lords Questions Gov't Over Web-data Retention Laws
News wrote the Earl in a question to parliament. Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton said that the manner in which the government decides to implement the directive will have far-reaching effects on ISPs.
[July 1, 2008, 16:06]
Broadband's Inspectors Sport Varied Track Records
News Some have been close to the forefront of the push to make affordable broadband available to every home and business in the UK through their work in parliament. Several MPs, including Sir George Young, Richard Allan, Brian White and Derek Wyatt...
[September 16, 2003, 18:30]
ICO: Gov't Ignoring Data-sharing Hazards
News Thomas said this should still be scrutinised by Parliament. The Data Sharing Review Report was written by information commissioner Richard Thomas and Wellcome Trust director Mark Walport. The information commissioner has issued a stark warning that...
[July 11, 2008, 0:01]
Bugbear Hits Australian Parliament
News The offices for the minister for information technology, Senator Richard Alston, and the Department of Parliamentary Reporting Staff, which manages the parliament's computer network, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
[October 23, 2002, 9:12]
MPs Ponder Whether 'benign' Hacking Should Be Legal
News APIG has already received written evidence from interested parties, and is taking further oral evidence at a session in parliament on Thursday. Today, the primary threat from hackers is to the network, rather than to individual computers, and if...
[April 26, 2004, 17:25]
