freedom of information
Exclusive: How safe is your laptop?
News A Freedom of Information request submitted by silicon.com has revealed the number of laptops stolen in the past year has significantly increased on the previous year,... [08 May 2007]
ID cards status to be made public
News But the chief secretary of the Treasury, Paul Boateng, said the information was exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and would not be disclosed.... [04 May 2007]
'Police data-sharing plan will hurt privacy'
News The low level of protection afforded by the proposal cannot properly serve the creation of an area of freedom, security and justice in which law enforcement... [01 May 2007]
Microsoft Webcast: Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backup With Data Protection Manager and CommVault
White Paper In this webcast, learn how Microsoft is partnering with CommVault to deliver an integrated disk-to-disk-to-tape backup and recovery solution, extending the traditional disk-to-disk-to-tape scenario by offering freedom to... [14 Apr 2007]
CCNA Curriculum No Barrier to Motivated Blind Student
White Paper Using JAWS screen-reading software from Freedom Scientific, complemented by a text-based terminal emulator, he was able to take full advantage of the Academy course material. And when some... [13 Apr 2007]
India rebuts work visa 'abuse' allegations
News In response to a Freedom of Information request, the Home Office body responsible for visas revealed last week that 33,756 permits were issued to overseas IT workers in the last 12... [26 Feb 2007]
UK tech visas increase by a third
News The figures were obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request by the Association of Technology Staffing Companies (Atsco), which is concerned at the high level... [20 Feb 2007]
Amnesty: ISPs must safeguard free speech
News that] continue to do the bidding of the Chinese authorities and deny people in China their basic rights to freedom of expression and information - by censoring search... [20 Feb 2007]
Improving Data Quality for Operational Efficiency and Freedom of Information
White Paper Community policing is at the heart of Gloucestershire Constabulary and in the mobile society that depends on accurate and up-to-date information. Gloucestershire Constabulary, a UK police force with... [27 Dec 2006]
Police crack down on dodgy data
Case Study Cheat Sheets The Computer Misuse Act ID cards Freedom of Information Act 2000 Graham Dawson, head of information services at Humberside Police... [09 Nov 2006]
Editor's Blog: Don't de-fang the Freedom of Information Act
Comment This week news broke that the government likes the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act (as our friends over at Kablenet tell us). News also broke that the government, through Constitutional... [18 Oct 2006]
BP pioneers 'DIY IT' scheme for employees
News There are consequences of ignoring those obligations but in exchange for following these rules you get a lot of freedom. It's about saving money but also about providing people with a... [11 Oct 2006]
Father of the web gets IT honour
News The famed techie, who founded and directs MIT's World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), was awarded the 'Freedom of the Information Technologists' by the City of London's 100th... [22 Sep 2006]
Google gets political
News The top priority for Google NetPAC, as the company has named it, will be swaying "critical decisions affecting internet freedom, innovation, and competition", said Alan Davidson, Google's Washington policy counsel. [19 Sep 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.09.06
Round-Up If we promise you this week's Round-Up contains amazing stories of intrigue and scandal will you first sit through an interesting tale about a Freedom of Information Act... [08 Sep 2006]
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