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RSS directiveThe Relationship Between ISO 27002 and the EU Data Protection Directive
White Paper The regulatory landscape for Information Security in Europe has grown ever more complex in recent years. As organisations, both public and private, recognise the inherent value of their information, and as the safety and reliability of... [05 Oct 2009]
MiFID Compliance With Tripwire
White Paper MiFID is a European Union Directive that, like its 1993 predecessor seeks to establish conditions under which investment firms and banks that engage in the investment business can provide such service or establish... [05 Oct 2009]
Basel II Compliance With Tripwire: Configuration Control for Virtual and Physical Infrastructures
White Paper Unlike other laws and standards affecting financial institutions in the US and overseas such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ("GLBA"), the EU Data Protection Directive and the PCI Data Security Standard, however, the... [05 Oct 2009]
ADACOM Has Been Listed as the First Certification Service Provider in Europe, With Products That Have Been Successfully Tested for Compliance With the On-Line Platform of the Czech Arbitration Court
White Paper The Czech Arbitration Court has amended its ADR Supplemental Rules to allow for electronic-only .eu ADR Proceedings, using advanced electronic signatures in accordance with Directive 1999/93 EC. The digital certificates... [01 Oct 2009]
Bloor Research Case Study: SenSage at O2 Ireland
White Paper It needed to meet the requirements of the EU Data Retention Directive, to meet the demands of other compliance requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, etc. [01 Sep 2009]
'Completely unworkable': The plans to track your web habits
News Hutty said that under the current data-retention directive, CSPs are required to store a limited number of details about communications, which can be made available to law enforcement upon request. Government proposals... [05 Aug 2009]
Move over 2G, Europe agrees to give 3G some space
News Under the GSM Directive of 1987, which harmonised spectrum use across Europe so mobile-phone services could take off, part of the 900MHz frequency band was reserved for 2G voice and text services. By updating the GSM... [29 Jul 2009]
£24m: The cost of tracking your emails and phone calls
News Home Office policing and security minister, David Hanson, told Parliament last week that millions are now being spent to fund ISPs', telcos' and mobile operators' retention of communications data under the European Data Retention... [13 Jul 2009]
£70bn birthday present for Faster Payments service
News The Faster Payments directive, which first went live on 27 May 2008, aims to cut the time it takes UK banking customers to move money from several days to a few hours. One year on from the launch of the Faster Payments... [27 May 2009]
Naked CIO: Proud to be working in IT
Comment The silicon.com editors have told me that from time to time readers enquire about the nature of my identity but as I have remained aloof they too have supported the prime directive of this column, which is to provide... [26 May 2009]
EC: Software makers must be held responsible for code
News Right now, under the current EU Sales and Guarantees Directive, physical products are expected to carry a guarantee of two years. Software companies could be held responsible for the security and efficiency of their... [11 May 2009]
Clinical Literature Reviews: Changes in the European Union's Medical Device Directive Require Manufacturers to Take Immediate Steps to Comply
White Paper With a rapidly approaching March 2010 deadline to comply with the European Union's revised Medical Device Directive, Nerac advises that manufacturers, now faced with an enormous amount of work to complete in a short... [01 May 2009]
Legal Eye: Ecommerce held back by outdated laws
Comment The Office of Fair Trade (OFT) has responded cautiously to a newly proposed EC Consumer Rights Directive whereby all EU countries would have the same level of consumer protection. A review of the European ecommerce... [15 Apr 2009]
Who's monitoring your email?
News The Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009 require service providers to retain details of user internet access, email and internet telephony for 12 months. These regulations supersede the Data Retention (EC... [06 Apr 2009]
Facebook slams gov't snooping plans
News Coaker said the EU Data Retention Directive, which requires ISPs to retain traffic data for at least 12 months, did not go far enough, as the directive did not apply to social-networking providers.... [25 Mar 2009]
