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The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08

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...

Tags: windows, yahoo, gordon brown, microsoft

[11 Apr 2008]

e-Crime Crackdown: Timeline

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...

Tags: cyber crime, nhtcu, e-crime, crime

[12 Mar 2008]

Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer

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.

Tags: isp, online, on demand, iplayer

[05 Mar 2008]

Top 10 retail IT stories of the year

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...

Tags: iplayer, retail, bbc, ibm

[19 Dec 2007]

Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 14.12.07

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.

Tags: downing street, mobile, santa, julian goldsmith

[14 Dec 2007]

Business warning over data security

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...

Tags: privacy, data breach, ico, calling

[11 Dec 2007]

Downing St responds to silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign

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.

Tags: full disclosure, government, data breach, data protection

[10 Dec 2007]

PM backs flexible working for UK parents

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...

Tags: gordon brown, flexible working, wfh, request

[08 Nov 2007]

Data breach notification laws are 'just the start'

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...

Tags: rsa, data breach, full disclosure

[23 Oct 2007]

Leader: Why the BBC must do more with iPlayer

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...

Tags: xp, linux, macs, iplayer

[19 Oct 2007]

SMEs in dark over data protection

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...

Tags: information, compliance, smes, data protection act

[11 Oct 2007]

Data security: Brits do care

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...

Tags: biometrics, security, data, full disclosure

[10 Oct 2007]

ID fraud: Who's most at risk?

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...

Tags: experian, id theft, id fraud

[09 Oct 2007]

Leader: Why security threats don't have to be taxing

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...

Tags: disclosure, hmrc, data breach

[09 Oct 2007]

Leader: How to put out the fires of ID fraud

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.

Tags: identity theft, privacy, full disclosure, data

[08 Oct 2007]

Tech companies back data breach law

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]

Stories of the Month - September 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.

Tags: iplayer, europe, contactless payment, vista

[28 Sep 2007]

'Stronger data breach laws needed in Asia'

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...

Tags: full disclosure, asia, data breach

[28 Sep 2007]

TJX data heist was "inevitable", says report

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...

Tags: cyber crime, security, data breach

[27 Sep 2007]

Businesses failing to safeguard sensitive data

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...

Tags: data protection, hard drive, data

[25 Sep 2007]

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