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Round-Up Again, you're going to be standing around with your fingerprint kit in your hands for a while unless you're a frequent visitor to 10 Downing Street or the PM drinks in your local. Wanted: fingerprints of one unkempt, jowly, harassed-looking...
[11 Apr 2008]
News Downing Street petition calls for e-crime unit UK citizens and businesses have weathered unrelenting attacks from online phishers and hackers in recent years, while witnessing a gradual erosion of the ability of police forces to deal with everyday...
[12 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet The Open Source Consortium was one of the main critics while an e-petition posted on the 10 Downing Street website about the issue attracted more than 16,000 signatures. Not quite.iPlayer is actually the BBC's online on-demand TV service.
[05 Mar 2008]
News A petition to make the BBC release the software to other platforms was launched on the 10 Downing Street website and attracted over 12,500 signatories. It hasn't exactly been a bumper year for conventional retail - soaring debt, an increasingly...
[19 Dec 2007]
Round-Up Podcast A letter from Downing Street, high-tech Santa, w00t, mucky mobile telly and robot dentistry are all discussed in The Weekly Round-Up podcast. Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio by Julian Goldsmith, Gemma Simpson and Steve Ranger.
[14 Dec 2007]
News This week Downing Street responded to our Full Disclosure e-petition, saying organisations will get guidance from the ICO on notifying their customers of a security breach. In the wake of the HMRC data debacle, organisations must act to safeguard...
[11 Dec 2007]
News As part of the campaign silicon.com launched an online petition on the Downing Street website calling for the Prime Minister to improve the reporting of information security breaches in the public and private sectors.
[10 Dec 2007]
News If this right was extended to parents of children under the age of 17, there would be an extra 4.5 million parents eligible to ask for flexible working, according to figures from 10 Downing Street. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched a...
[08 Nov 2007]
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. Any UK data breach notification laws are just the start of addressing the wider identity theft problem...
[23 Oct 2007]
Leader So will a streaming service be enough to placate critics - such as the Open Source Consortium or the 16,000 people who signed a Downing Street e-petition on the issue? The BBC is in the process of developing a video streaming version of iPlayer...
[19 Oct 2007]
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. Small and medium-sized enterprises are not as aware of the principles of the Data Protection Act as larger...
[11 Oct 2007]
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. Safeguarding customer data should be a priority for UK companies - because consumers here place great store...
[10 Oct 2007]
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. National identity fraud protection week has kicked off with a warning that 79 per cent of Brits are still...
[09 Oct 2007]
Leader Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. It's not everyday you applaud the taxman - but HM Revenues and Customs (HMRC) deserves praise for its...
[09 Oct 2007]
Leader Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. Every fire needs three ingredients: fuel, oxygen and heat. Take away any one and the fire will fizzle out.
[08 Oct 2007]
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. More than 50 per cent of the UK's technology companies want legislation forcing companies to notify their...
[02 Oct 2007]
News And finally, the controversy around the BBC iPlayer was again in the news this month with the government responding to an e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website, signed by more than 16,000 people.
[28 Sep 2007]
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. Governments in Asia need stronger data-breach laws to ensure businesses improve the security of their...
[28 Sep 2007]
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. The risk of a breach of sensitive personal information held by retail giant TJX earlier this year was...
[27 Sep 2007]
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. Organisations charged with safeguarding sensitive data are not doing enough to ensure that information is...
[25 Sep 2007]
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