police in comment and analysis
Where's the real web 2.0?
Comment There are also content police - companies with a deliberate policy of searching for negative comments and getting them removed - and those that go even further and turn web 2.0 into marketing propaganda 2.0. [18 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... McInternet, FON in the UK, safety first, e-fraud...
Comment Police get powers to demand data decryption What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [11 Oct 2007]
Leader: How to put out the fires of ID fraud
Leader Equally, when a crime is committed companies also need to be able to report it to police who will act on the information - although that is a separate issue. Every fire needs three ingredients: fuel, oxygen and heat. [08 Oct 2007]
Leader: Is BT-FON deal a real mesh?
Leader In fact the police increasingly see it that way too, as recent stories have highlighted. There is quite a debate that rages about whether you should share your home broadband connection when it is flung beyond the walls of your home using wi-fi. [04 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...
Comment It's possible to live in a "police-state", without it being a highly visible and in-your-face system. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [04 Oct 2007]
Escape the data management minefield
Comment Yet recent reports saw Home Secretary Jacqui Smith flouting Data Protection (1998) laws by letting the Metropolitan Police use automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) data for crime-fighting purposes. [13 Sep 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Don't mess with mobile users
Comment In the early days, more than 20 years ago now, the concept was a phone attached to the dashboard of a vehicle - in the style of police and taxi walkie-talkies. Written in my home office just outside Woodbridge in the UK and dispatched via my home... [07 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... DNA database, lie detector tech, sat-nav blunders...
Comment sorry I was speeding my pregnant wife has to go to hospital NOW please don't book me" works with a police officer but doesn't work on speed cameras, how do you explain to a lie detector that you are stressed because of an eviction notice that... [07 Sep 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Don't let sleeping data dogs lie
Comment Opponents of such a law say it might impede police investigations - but the Californian law allows for notifications to be delayed if crime agencies think disclosure might hamper their attempts to catch the bad guys. [04 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... this little piggybacker, don't talk trash, analyse this...
Comment Are the British police working for the telecoms industry now? I wonder if the police questioned the owner of the Wi-Fi access point to ascertain what their intentions were in leaving it in an unsecured state? [30 Aug 2007]
Editor's Blog: Public sector and PCs - not boring, official
Comment The first isn't perhaps the sexiest of subjects - the Independent Police Complaints Commission is in the midst of a wide-ranging (£50m) tech review. Does a police force dealing with a terrorist's details have more robust mobile security than a... [29 Aug 2007]
Leader: Time to rethink cyber crime priorities
Leader Yet, with all this noise around high tech crime, what is the most high profile cyber-related UK police story of the week? It's up to businesses and other interested parties to keep up the pressure on government and the police to take cyber crime... [24 Aug 2007]
Martin Taylor
CIO Profile Taylor took time out from CIO work in 2001 for a mixture of work that included personal investment, consulting to Microsoft founder Paul Allen's European private equity business and a non-executive position on the UK government's police and... [06 Jun 2007]
Ailsa Beaton
CIO Profile An accountant originally, Ailsa Beaton is now responsible for the Metropolitan Police Service's (MPS) directorate of information, which provides IT and communications services to the Met's 47,000 police officers and staff across 750 locations. [06 Jun 2007]
Leader: Laptop theft is everybody's problem
Leader London is the worst hit, with more than 15,000 laptops stolen in the Metropolitan Police area alone. In the past week silicon.com has published a series of articles shedding light on the issue of laptop theft in the UK. [21 May 2007]
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