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Comment Insourcing offers fine grain management control over quality, shared time zones, resistance to infrastructural failure, data protection and the opportunity for face to face meetings if you share the same building.
[08 May 2008]
Round-Up The HMRC has discussed 11 data security incidents involving customer information with the Information Commissioner's Office since April 2005, has stopped data transfers unless there is a business critical need, and now demands adequate security...
[02 May 2008]
Comment Get the police to do the job the Data Protection Registrar isn't bothering to do! Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com readers undecided whether the OS should live on or not… And data losses never seem far from the...
[01 May 2008]
Comment Data Protection Act The most significant piece of legislation in the UK is the Data Protection Act, the principles of which govern the handling of personal information. What he's taken to doing now is getting an undertaking from individuals and...
[08 Apr 2008]
Comment Many will be aware now that the seventh principle of the Data Protection Act requires businesses to take appropriate technical and organisational measures to guard against accidental data loss. Compliance with the new Companies Act and the Data...
[27 Mar 2008]
Comment They can also show, therefore, through those audits that they are complying with data protection regulations - as well as satisfying the requirements of a number of other regulations with which they must comply.
[18 Mar 2008]
Comment It would be far better for the publishers to devise a common scheme of copyright protection. Why should the ISPs have to fund what is inadequate copyright protection by the media companies? ¦ The Naked CIO: Identity crisis ¦ Revealed: The...
[28 Feb 2008]
Comment The whole area of data protection and data breaches has often seemed too complex for our famously techno-phobic MPs to grasp. These unlikely heroes of data protection last year made a series of - to my mind - entirely sensible recommendations on...
[27 Feb 2008]
Comment With Sarbanes-Oxley, data protection and new US PCI standards, businesses have an obligation to comply with standards for securing this information. Like most IT directors, the Naked CIO is extremely careful with other people's data.
[25 Feb 2008]
Comment Quite apart from posing a potential contradiction to wider privacy and data protection law, these proposals will be very hard to implement and enforce. While data can be made available to prosecute transgressors in court, representatives have yet...
[22 Feb 2008]
Comment The problem is that as usual anybody pointing out the pitfalls - such as proof, data protection, misuse and so on - are ignored. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our...
[14 Feb 2008]
Comment He says: "DWP's job is to serve its customers and ensure that the right standards are applied, for example in adherence to stringent data protection and security requirements. This would ensure that perceived but unfounded obstacles can be quickly...
[14 Feb 2008]
Comment Seven months after we launched our Full Disclosure campaign calling for a rethink of legislation in this area, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is now asking that knowingly or recklessly breaching the Data Protection Act should be made...
[06 Feb 2008]
Comment Although the internet was once considered borderless, businesses are recognising that understanding the location of their web visitors has an impact on advertising and marketing, compliance, fraud protection and security.
[09 Jan 2008]
Comment But that is not the end of the story and delisting will not reduce the burden of compliance with a range of other regulations, such as data protection legislation. And because of controls such as improved security mechanisms, better records...
[07 Jan 2008]
Round-Up Currently only third parties can be prosecuted under the Data Protection Act for offences such as unlawfully obtaining or disclosing personal data. Now that the horse has long since bolted, MPs have decided to take action over all this bothersome...
[04 Jan 2008]
Comment Banks are listening; 51 per cent of financial firms have moved beyond simple password protection when managing online transactions, says Deloitte. Financial services companies have a unique challenge because consumers believe that the banks should...
[24 Dec 2007]
Comment There is actually no explicit obligation under the Data Protection Act (DPA) to use encryption, although the DPA does state that 'appropriate technical and organisational measures' should be taken to ensure data is kept completely secure, which...
[21 Dec 2007]
Comment A report by the US Environmental Protection Agency in August suggested that simply by continuing current rates of server consolidation in the data centre, the US could save 15 million metric tonnes of carbon by 2011.
[21 Dec 2007]
Comment It's nothing to do with the DP [Data Protection] Act. I thought that EU Data Protection laws meant that data could not be exported to the USA without permission because of their different data protection standards.
[20 Dec 2007]
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