laws in comment and analysis
Editor's Blog: HPgate?
Comment Have any laws been broken? It's possible the practice of pretexting - impersonating someone when contacting, say, a telco, to find other information - is illegal under California ID theft laws but it's not clear whether any charges will be brought... [13 Sep 2006]
Leader: Ageism in IT - what do you think?
Leader Starting on 1 October, new laws will make it illegal for companies to deny a job or promotion to anyone because of their age. But the laws certainly send a strong message to employers about how they must treat workers when hiring, firing and... [11 Sep 2006]
Leader: Time for tougher spam laws
Leader So you can understand both this publication's hope and depression at recent news the UK government may revise our flawed anti-spam laws - hope that they'll get it right this time around, depression that it's taken so long to come about.silicon.com... [19 Jul 2006]
Leader: Apple off the DRM hook?
Leader As other European countries do the same - Poland and Switzerland (the latter outside the EU) are set to review their copyright laws this year - we could be in for another round of controversy that doesn't necessarily come with such a convenient... [03 Jul 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 21
Comment Another said: "China has only had business laws in place for 20 years. This is his warts-and-all diary, which appears daily this month. For in-depth coverage of this fact-finding trip inside China, including analysis and exclusive stories, click here. [30 Jun 2006]
The big picture - China's tech scene
Comment She adds: "From 2003 there was a boom in demand for consumer products mainly because of the changes in property laws in 1999 and 2000 where people could take out mortgages. The Tangs created a strong economic environment and forged diplomatic... [12 Jun 2006]
Analysis: Does ID management invade workers' privacy?
Comment Stewart Baines explains what businesses deploying ID management need to know about privacy laws. A legal minefield is emerging where to protect one set of laws, a company has to be very careful it is not breaking others. [10 May 2006]
Leader: Had a security breach? 'Fess up
Leader The UK has no similar laws to inform consumers of data theft, which effectively means that MasterCard has no legal responsibility to explain exactly what happened in this recent or any other breach. In all likelihood, MasterCard's recent data... [26 Apr 2006]
Leader: Piracy crackdown no good for China
Leader And that won't happen so fast if the government comes down hard with licensing laws. Bill Gates must be feeling pretty chuffed with himself after the Chinese president paid a visit to his home. The PR spin on this has been that the two discussed... [21 Apr 2006]
Leader: Hacking law updates are overdue
Leader It's taken some time for MPs to decide how to update the UK's laws against hackers. Nevertheless, the proposals in the new Police and Justice Bill don't look too shabby. For years the Computer Misuse Act (1990) has failed to sufficiently deter... [13 Apr 2006]
Leader: Why we need data loss disclosure laws
Leader It goes without saying that most people, in business at least, only admit a mistake for one reason - because they realise they're going to get caught anyway. Nowhere is this more clear than with the issue of disclosing data loss. [03 Apr 2006]
Leader: Why tech must go green
Leader Uppermost among them is the fact the laws in many countries will soon, if they do not already, dictate that it must. There are a number of reasons why the IT industry must adopt a more environmentally friendly stance. [20 Mar 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Life after DRM doesn't look so bad
Comment Perhaps sometimes we can't but that may be because some laws fail to command general respect or to coincide with what is widely seen as reasonable practice. If rights holders put too stringent demands on how we can use digital information, we may... [14 Feb 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Ethics before profit
Comment Now this all sounds very fine until we start to consider that it was only recently that our own Home Secretary was urging new laws to censor the "glorification of terrorism". Historically, laws restricting certain kinds of public expression have... [07 Feb 2006]
Opinion: Get ready for global surveillance
Comment The book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, written during the commercial genesis of the internet by law professor Lawrence Lessig, argued that the ungoverned virtual world of the internet would find it impossible to avoid the introduction of an... [25 Jan 2006]
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