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Fibre era fraught with roadblocks: EC
News As part of the mooted reforms, a number of important changes that could affect end users are being debated - including quicker mobile number porting; easier to understand tariffs and pricing; better data protection and mandatory notification of... [04 Sep 2008]
CIOs ready for flexi-time law
News Issues over Health and Safety at home; the combination of business, personal and leisure use of computer equipment; Data Protection Act; scope and hours of operation for hardware and software support services; the blurring of personal vs corporate... [03 Sep 2008]
Reduce the Risk of Costly Data Breaches: Three Pillars of Data Protection
White Paper There are numerous regulations that govern the protection of private, personal and confidential data regardless of whether the data resides on a secure mainframe computer, desktop PC or mobile device such as a laptop PC. [02 Sep 2008]
Watchdog demands data breach confessions
News The NCC is petitioning the European Union to draft legal powers to compel businesses and banks to inform customers when they lose their personal data.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government... [01 Sep 2008]
Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment Perhaps care of data would improve if directors of companies involved in breaches and politicians had to divulge the same information about themselves whenever a loss of data was discovered in their company or government department? [28 Aug 2008]
"Shambolic" security behind Home Office data breach
News We are calling for greater public debate and for the government to consider legislation that would require organisations that suffer information security breaches to alert their customers if there is a chance the breach has put individuals... [27 Aug 2008]
Home Office loses data on 84,000 prisoners
News David Smith, deputy commissioner for UK data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office, said in a statement: "It is deeply worrying that after a number of major data losses and the publication of two government reports on high... [22 Aug 2008]
Ministry of Justice loses 45,000 records
News We are calling for greater public debate and for the government to consider legislation that would require organisations that suffer information security breaches to alert their customers if there is a chance the breach has put individuals... [25 Jul 2008]
Privacy watchdog to get power to raid
News The government launched its consultation on the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) powers and funding following the Data Sharing Review, which recommended that the ICO be given more money and authority to fine organisations for "reckless... [17 Jul 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News We are calling for greater public debate and for the government to consider legislation that would require organisations that suffer information security breaches to alert their customers if there is a chance the breach has put individuals... [15 Jul 2008]
UK must overhaul data sharing rules
News Whitehall has neither the framework nor the leadership to properly protect the public's personal data, a review by Information Commissioner Richard Thomas and Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust has found.silicon.com's Full Disclosure... [11 Jul 2008]
NHS data handling: Calls for independent audits
News She added that trusts must report any information assurance issues to their respective board and that any substantial breaches must be published. Winfield acknowledged it would take time to encrypt all personal data on NHS computers but said trusts... [07 Jul 2008]
ICO: Data breach law moves closer
News Smith added that it was important for government departments to put in interim measures to guard against data breaches, such as carrying around the minimum amount of information, while carrying out the lengthy process of encrypting all personal data. [03 Jul 2008]
Outsourcing Abroad - What's the Impact on Personal Data?
White Paper There are, however, some major risks associated with choosing this strategy: potential damage to the organisation's reputation if the strategy is poorly managed, opening the organisation up to breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) as well... [03 Jul 2008]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News The October loss saw two serious breaches of policy, relating to the lack of authorisation for disclosure of the full data and its being sent via untraceable internal mail. HMRC should report any breaches of security promptly, something that did... [26 Jun 2008]
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