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Round-Up And to think, only this week the House of Lords supported a hasty amendment to the criminal justice and immigration bill which would make it a criminal offence to carelessly release or lose personal data.
[02 May 2008]
Comment House of Lords backs data loss law change 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 reader comments page, with this week...
[01 May 2008]
Comment So, in the absence of much interest from our elected representatives it has, perhaps surprisingly, fallen to the House of Lords to champion reform in this area. So in the past week the Lords have announced they are having another crack, with a new...
[27 Feb 2008]
Comment Earlier this month an influential House of Lords committee said the introduction of a data breach law in the UK would be one of the most important advances the UK could make to improve internet security, and silicon.com recently launched its Full...
[03 Sep 2007]
Leader Just this month a House of Lords committee urged the government to do more to tackle e-crime - or risk losing public confidence in the security of the internet. We're often warned of the menace of cyber crime to UK business - and hear plenty of...
[24 Aug 2007]
Comment Schneier's words echo those of Lord Broers, the chair of the House of Lords science and technology committee. He is now an employee of BT though it seems a job at such a monolith has done nothing to dampen his enthusiasm or tendency for the...
[25 Apr 2007]
Comment Delivering the first keynote of the day, Lord Broers, chair of the House of Lords science and technology committee, singled out Microsoft's use of pop-ups to warn end-users of potential security threats.
[24 Apr 2007]
Leader Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons and the House of Lords had been united in opposing the introduction of ID cards until the climb-down, presented as a 'compromise', finally let the government off the hook.
[31 Mar 2006]
Round-Up The Lords pick the spin perfectly and send it back ferociously, though spectators fearing whiplash from observing this to-and-fro get no reprieve as Clarke steps up to the challenge and fires a return to the back of the court, laden once more with...
[24 Mar 2006]
Leader The government, unsurprisingly, claims it has successfully made the case for ID cards after MPs voted by a narrow margin in the House of Commons to overturn amendments made by the House of Lords that would have derailed the ID cards bill.
[13 Mar 2006]
Leader This "compromise" centres on the amendments to the ID cards bill by the House of Lords last month in which peers defeated the government plan to make it compulsory for people to submit their biometric details for the National Identity Register...
[10 Feb 2006]
Leader Today represents something of a landmark day in silicon.com's ongoing ID Cards on Trial campaign following the savage defeat inflicted on the flawed legislation by peers in the House of Lords on Monday evening.
[17 Jan 2006]
Round-Up While Home Secretary Charles Clarke - and his predecessor the scandal-prone David Blunkett - would have us believe these cards will cure all manner of society's ills, the House of Lords isn't quite so convinced.
[22 Dec 2005]
Leader He even hinted that the provision for secondary legislation before the cards can be made compulsory could be done away with because it is likely the House of Lords would vote against it. Signs of a definite change of gear in the government's ID...
[04 Aug 2005]
Leader The best hope is that the bill gets blocked in the House of Lords, or that select committee hearings and reports delay implementation long enough for the whole project to undergo a major rethink - or get quietly dropped altogether.
[27 Jun 2005]
Leader He was eventually acquitted after an appeal to the House of Lords but the incident brought about a change in the law, with the introduction of the Computer Misuse Act making it illegal to hack computers.
[23 Sep 2004]
Comment This week the House of Lords discussed draft regulations for a change in laws governing spam. It's been another week when the problem of spam has dominated the headlines. More than 40 per cent of all email is spam - and Enrique Salem, CEO of anti...
[09 May 2003]
Comment Attic Attack, Frankenstein, Harrier Attack, Head over Heels, The Hobbit, Hungry Horace, Jet Set Willy, Lords of Midnight, Manic Miner and the Dizzy series - we could go on for hours. Similarly, Allan McBain insists time (his time, at least) never...
[17 Jan 2002]
Comment Send the Linux penguin to the House of Lords. This old joke always comes to mind in the presence of politicians, another group of professional attention-seekers who rarely succeed in being illuminating.
[21 Mar 2001]
Comment They gave the speeches, but milling around the room were a David Seaman-sized handful of Tory big cheese MPs, including Michael Ancaram, chairman of the Tory Party, and a sprinkling of lords, including Lord Saatchi.
[09 Nov 2000]
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