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Microsoft licensing value under scrutiny

News Richard Storey, head of IT, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Richard Steel, CIO, London Borough of Newham At a recent workshop by blue-chip user group the Corporate IT Forum, some IT chiefs said Microsoft's Select Agreements are a far...

Tags: microsoft, licensing, cio jury, windows vista

[15 Nov 2007]

SMEs in dark over data protection

News The information commissioner, Richard Thomas, said these findings are a "considerable concern", when the increasing risk of identity fraud is taken into account. Thomas said most organisations know it makes business sense to comply with the Act...

Tags: information, compliance, smes, data protection act

[11 Oct 2007]

Judge calls for "universal" national DNA database

News Speaking on the same programme the Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said there are risks of errors, mistakes and mix-ups with such a massive database and serious consequences as a result. In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme Lord...

Tags: database, dna

[05 Sep 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Data Protection Act 1998

Cheat Sheet The information commissioner is Richard Thomas. It currently needs permission from organisations to carry out an inspection but Thomas told a Home Office Select Committee this situation should change.

Tags: security, data protection act

[28 Aug 2007]

Summer slowdown bad for IT projects

News Richard Storey, head of IT, Guys and St Thomas' NHS Hostpital Trust Richard Steele, CIO at the London Borough of Newham, said: "The work doesn't go away but you can't get to speak to anyone when you need them, and problems always occur when the key...

Tags: project management, productivity, upgrades, cio jury

[03 Aug 2007]

ID card project gets new boss

News Recently a government tribunal ruled the status of the ID card programme will be made public after calls for a Gateway Review by information commissioner Richard Thomas.silicon.com Public Sector The national ID card project has a new boss following...

Tags: biometrics, information commissioner, ogc, home office

[27 Jul 2007]

Full Disclosure - silicon.com launches data breaches campaign

Comment As the information commissioner Richard Thomas recently pointed out, there is a "frankly horrifying" roll-call of banks, retailers and government departments that have admitted serious security lapses.

Tags: full disclosure, data privacy

[16 Jul 2007]

CEOs blamed for "horrifying" data blunders

News Richard Thomas wrote in a report: "The roll-call of banks, retailers, government departments, public bodies and other organisations which have admitted serious security lapses is frankly horrifying. Thomas added: "How can laptops holding details of...

Tags: ico, information commission office, data protection, data protection act

[11 Jul 2007]

How to stop your best tech staff from being poached

News Richard Storey, head of IT at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, said: "This approach has resulted in attracting a different type of person who has a clear career development vision which we can support and benefit from, without resorting...

Tags: skills, retention, talent, cio jury

[28 Jun 2007]

Techies "lack business and leadership skills"

News Richard Storey, head of IT, Guys & St Thomas' Foundation Hospital NHS Trust Three-quarters of the 12-strong silicon.com CIO Jury IT user panel - conducted at the IT Directors' Forum last week - said IT professionals often talk technology too much...

Tags: itdf, cio jury

[13 Jun 2007]

ID cards status to be made public

News The ruling, made yesterday, supports the decision of the information commissioner, Richard Thomas, to make the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) publish details of its Gateway Reviews of the ID cards project.

Tags: id cards

[04 May 2007]

Opinion: Global services' level playing-field

Comment Our new book has taken Thomas Friedman's notion of the 'flat world' and moved a step further, identifying how the information technology industry now underpins an enormous potential for services to be delivered remotely.

Tags: infosys, tcs, wipro, india

[02 May 2007]

Give us more power, says data protection watchdog

News But giving evidence before the Home Affairs Select Committee, information commissioner Richard Thomas called for stronger powers to allow his office to carry out inspections and audits. Thomas said it is essential that before new surveillance...

Tags: surveillance

[01 May 2007]

Crime pays - and pays very well in cyberspace

Comment This year the e-Crime Congress, an event I helped organise, will hear from UK politicos such as Home Office minister Vernon Coaker, shadow home affairs minister James Brokenshire and information commissioner Richard Thomas.

Tags: cyber crime

[07 Mar 2007]

SMEs: Deal with data requests this way...

News Information commissioner Richard Thomas has called for tougher penalties for people who misuse data and supported the recent legal change which means data thieves now face up to two years in prison. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has...

Tags: data protection, data protection act, information commissioner, sme

[13 Feb 2007]

Data thieves facing two years in prison

News Information Commissioner Richard Thomas had proposed tougher penalities and today said in a statement that "a custodial sentence will act as a deterrent". Individuals who sell or deliberately misuse others' personal data could now face a penalty of...

Tags: data theft

[07 Feb 2007]

Photos of the month - January 2007

Photo Pictured is astronaut Thomas Reiter with his hand-held friend. Also on hand for the launch were pop band The Feeling and Doug Richard of BBC 2 show Dragon's Den fame. With Vista's commercial launch fast approaching, Microsoft unveiled the first new...

Tags: photos of the month, photos

[31 Jan 2007]

Opinion: Why I fear joined-up government

Comment At the forthcoming e-Crime Congress in March, this is a subject which will be examined by Cambridge University professor Ross Anderson and information commissioner Richard Thomas, who has already warned the UK may be "sleepwalking into a...

Tags: data privacy, government database

[18 Jan 2007]

Brampton Factor: Data theft a warning

Comment Following the conviction, information commissioner Richard Thomas said he was investigating a number of organisations that have bought personal data and warned of raids and prosecutions. Data theft is rampant, we've heard again and again.

Tags: data theft

[22 Nov 2006]

'Extreme Big Brother fears to become a reality'

'Extreme Big Brother fears to become a reality'

News In a new report entitled A Surveillance Society, information commissioner Richard Thomas predicts a world in 2016 where technology is extensively and routinely used to track and record people's activities and movements.

Tags: information commissioner

[01 Nov 2006]

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