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News Liberal Democrat Lady Miller won support of the House of Lords for the proposed amendment to make reckless data loss a criminal offence, but this was changed to a civil offence when the criminal justice bill was approved by the House of Commons on...
[12 May 2008]
Round-Up And to think, only this week the House of Lords supported a hasty amendment to the criminal justice and immigration bill which would make it a criminal offence to carelessly release or lose personal data.
[02 May 2008]
News The House of Lords recently backed a motion to make the reckless loss or distribution of data a criminal offence. The HMRC has discussed 11 data security incidents involving customer information with the Information Commissioner's Office since...
[01 May 2008]
Comment House of Lords backs data loss law change Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com readers undecided whether the OS should live on or not… And data losses never seem far from the reader comments page, with this week...
[01 May 2008]
News Losing personal data took a step closer to becoming a criminal offence after the House of Lords backed a change in the law. A Ministry of Justice spokesman said it would consider its position on making data loss a criminal offence following the...
[28 Apr 2008]
News House of Lords Science and Technology Committee says UK government must do better on e-crime and calls for a central reporting body UK citizens and businesses have weathered unrelenting attacks from online phishers and hackers in recent years...
[12 Mar 2008]
Comment So, in the absence of much interest from our elected representatives it has, perhaps surprisingly, fallen to the House of Lords to champion reform in this area. So in the past week the Lords have announced they are having another crack, with a new...
[27 Feb 2008]
News The government has failed to address important concerns about security on the internet - including ignoring calls for a data breach notification law - leading a House of Lords committee to look at the issue again.
[22 Feb 2008]
News The decision to merge the NHTCU with Soca was not a popular one and in August 2007 a House of Lords committee urged the government to do more to tackle e-crime or risk losing public confidence in the security of the internet.
[14 Feb 2008]
News The change in the watchdog's attitude follows mounting support for Full Disclosure since it was launched by silicon.com in July 2007, with backing from the police, the House of Lords and security experts - including individuals such as Bruce...
[31 Jan 2008]
News Speaking at a joint House of Commons and House of Lords select committee on human rights, the data protection minister Michael Wills admitted he was not informed about the HMRC data breach before Alistair Darling's public statement last week.
[27 Nov 2007]
News The u-turn follows the rejection by ministers of similar proposals put forward by House of Lords Science and Technology select committee just a month ago. During Prime Minister's questions in the House of Commons yesterday, he said: "We will give...
[22 Nov 2007]
News The current push by the government towards increased data sharing could backfire, with negative effects for public confidence, according to Merlin, Earl of Erroll, a member of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee.
[12 Nov 2007]
News The credit card providers took an appeal to the House of Lords. We are pleased that the House of Lords has resolved the issue, and particularly happy that it has been resolved in a way that gives greater protection to consumers.
[02 Nov 2007]
News The government has failed to understand the threat to the continued growth of the internet posed by cyber crime, according to the influential House of Lords Science and Technology Committee. The Lords report had warned of the danger that public...
[01 Nov 2007]
News Those documents may not contain evidence of wrongdoing but the police may find more than they're entitled to," said Clayton, who is also an adviser to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee.
[04 Oct 2007]
News A House of Lords committee warned last month the government must act or risk losing public confidence in the security of the internet. Speaking at the discussion on data breach notification organised by tech supplier body Intellect, Lord Harris of...
[14 Sep 2007]
Comment Earlier this month an influential House of Lords committee said the introduction of a data breach law in the UK would be one of the most important advances the UK could make to improve internet security, and silicon.com recently launched its Full...
[03 Sep 2007]
Leader Just this month a House of Lords committee urged the government to do more to tackle e-crime - or risk losing public confidence in the security of the internet. We're often warned of the menace of cyber crime to UK business - and hear plenty of...
[24 Aug 2007]
News Passing a data security breach law is one of the most important advances the UK could make to improve internet security, according to an influential House of Lords committee. And the government should begin consultation on the scope of such a law...
[10 Aug 2007]
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