police in comment and analysis
Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment Brand owners and sites need to work together to police against infringement if they are to stand any chance of overcoming it. It signals a new intent to tighten online policing, says lawyer Simon Levine. [22 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gets down to business, caught on camera, ID cards…
Comment What possible justification can Manchester police have for keeping for five years the records of tens of thousands of innocent citizens going about their legitimate business. Police State big style. Good god, do people really have to ask why the... [12 Jun 2008]
The CIO's route to the top
Comment Ailsa Beaton - director of information management at the Metropolitan Police Service where she manages the force's IT strategy and £300m tech budget - actually studied chemistry, then opted for a career in accountancy before being lured into the... [11 Jun 2008]
Female CIOs break through glass ceiling
Comment Ailsa Beaton, director of information services at the Metropolitan Police Service, sits on the management board reporting to the Commissioner and is responsible for an IT budget of £300m per year. The lack of women in the IT profession is well... [11 Jun 2008]
Martin Taylor
CIO Profile Taylor took time out from being a CIO 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... [11 Jun 2008]
Ailsa Beaton
CIO Profile Ailsa Beaton's career path to becoming IT chief at the Metropolitan Police Service hasn't followed the typical IT route. Beaton is also a volunteer police officer and occasionally can be seen patrolling the streets of Brixton, south London. [11 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: Blogging cowboys ride the Wild Web
Comment He was prosecuted and fined under provisions in the Telecommunications Act for comments made about a police officer's family. Not so, says lawyer Duncan Calow. Blogs, social networks and other user-generated content blur the line between reader and... [05 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Ailsa Beaton, CIO, Metropolitan Police Service
Comment Patrolling the mean streets of London on a Friday evening isn't where you would usually find a CIO but then not many CIOs get to experience front line service in the way the Metropolitan Police Service's director of information management Ailsa... [02 Jun 2008]
Minority Report: What's in store for the iPhone?
Comment More on the iPhone ¦ Apple iPhone 'ready for business' ¦ Doctor iPhone will see you now… ¦ Video: Apple iPhone is a serious business at last ¦ iPhone making business users smile ¦ iPhone on the Edge 'disappoints' Apple co... [23 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ The Naked CIO: Process not bureaucracy ¦ Video: Does the UK need a police e-crime unit? This week, readers get worked up over rude mobile users... [15 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment Get the police to do the job the Data Protection Registrar isn't bothering to do! Mr Button - you mean get the police to do the job the ICO doesn't have the authority to do. Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com... [01 May 2008]
Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season
Comment As of the beginning of this month Google will no longer police the unauthorised use of trademarks in any new keyword purchases. This month Google changed its policy on selling keyword search terms containing trademarks. [30 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Time to take the politicians out of technology?
Comment Certainly when it comes to IT it's easier to think of the public sector as a series of small businesses - departments, quangos, NGOs, NHS trusts, police forces - that occasionally work together but more often work against each other, cynics would... [30 Apr 2008]
Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket
Comment More on the iPhone ¦ Apple iPhone 'ready for business' ¦ Doctor iPhone will see you now… ¦ Video: Apple iPhone is a serious business at last ¦ iPhone making business users smile ¦ iPhone on the Edge 'disappoints' Apple co... [23 Apr 2008]
People are mugs over identity theft
Comment If you have ever attempted to report an internet-related crime at your local police station, you can imagine how the civilian assistant - it's unlikely you'll see a police officer - will react to your claiming from behind a reinforced window that... [08 Apr 2008]
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