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Inbox: YouTube surveillance, skills gap, Naked speak
Comment Incidentally, the Parliamentarians who sat in on the EURIM hearings were a roll call of the MPs and Peers who care about IT. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments... [11 Aug 2008]
Citizens use YouTube to keep gov't in check
News Sous-veillance" will see video sharing sites such as YouTube used by citizens to shine a spotlight on things such as deadly hygiene lapses in hospital wards and uncollected rubbish, according to the European Information Society Group... [31 Jul 2008]
Information Security forum to 'change behaviour'
News The Information Security Awareness Forum (Isaf) - launched yesterday at the British Computer Society (BCS) in London - will be an umbrella body for a number of organisations, including BCS, IT industry lobbying group... [13 Feb 2008]
Government to be quizzed over UK address database
News The parliamentary-industry group European Information Society Group (Eurim) will this week question the government on who will take ownership of a national address database and how it will be managed. [11 Jul 2005]
'Bring crime fighting into the internet age'
News The European Information Society Group (EURIM) claims half of all crime - in financial terms - is committed using computers, either to plan, commit or process. Philip Virgo, secretary general of EURIM,... [22 Mar 2005]
Can we improve workplace skills in the UK?
News The parliamentary-industry group European Information Society Group (EURIM) is also hoping to affect workplace skills. In its Election Manifesto, released today, EURIM named ten issues it would like to... [22 Mar 2005]
Police teach self defence against cybercrime
News Brian White MP, chairman of security lobbying group EURIM, has applauded the creation of the seminars, and said it was acceptable for the police to charge for conferences. The Metropolitan Police Force is launching a... [20 Jan 2005]
5 years ago... UK cyber-crime spend 'inadequate'
News Nick Lockett, ecommerce solicitor at law firm Sidley & Austin, and a founder of the e-crime unit at government-industry forum, Eurim, said: "It continues, in my view, to exacerbate the existing failure of this government... [19 Jan 2005]
Opinion: UK needs cybercrime strategy
Comment Next week, the Parliamentary group EURIM will release its report called Partnership Policing for the Information Society in which it will claim: "The cost to industry and individuals of electronically assisted crime is... [13 Jan 2005]
Civil Service deletes millions of emails
News Lord Erroll, member of European internet security lobbyist EURIM, said: "It's impractical and they're working on an idiotic time scale to do this. The Cabinet Office denied on Monday that millions of emails are being... [20 Dec 2004]
Euro group calls for techies to become bobbies
News The European Information Society Group (EURIM) is calling on the government to employ the services of IT workers as special constables. I think we should be using special constables," said chairman of... [02 Dec 2004]
Police let down by e-crime ignorance
News That's the conclusion from a report by Eurim (the European Information Society Group) and IPPR (the Institute for Public Policy Research) advocating widespread reform of the criminal justice system's education on IT. [18 May 2004]
'Compulsory' e-government part of £15bn Whitehall review
News But Philip Virgo, secretary-general of the all-party Parliamentary lobby group the European Information Society Group (EURIM), said that would depend on the "political will" to do this. Plans to squeeze efficiency gains... [16 Feb 2004]
Government and vendors accused over SME e-crime
News A report from industry lobby group European Information Society Group (EURIM) and political think-tank IPPR, published today, aims to raise awareness of the security issues faced by small and medium-sized businesses and... [13 Feb 2004]
Cybercrime: education not legislation the answer
News The paper, published by ecommerce lobby group EURIM, and think tank The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), argues that although some legislation is required to fight internet-based crimes, alone, it will make... [12 Dec 2003]
