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Outlawed: Reckless loss of data

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...

Tags: data breach, full disclosure, data loss

[12 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08

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.

Tags: iplayer, iphone, blackberry, vista

[02 May 2008]

600 HMRC workers caught snooping

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...

Tags: data loss, hmrc

[01 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…

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...

Tags: iphone, blackberry, femtocell, vista

[01 May 2008]

House of Lords backs data loss law change

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...

Tags: data breach, full disclosure, data loss

[28 Apr 2008]

e-Crime Crackdown: Timeline

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...

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

[12 Mar 2008]

Editor's Blog: Lords above!

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...

Tags: full disclosure, data, security, house of lords

[27 Feb 2008]

Lords take fresh look at data security

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.

Tags: data, law, lords, breach

[22 Feb 2008]

Police unprepared for security 'arms race'

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.

Tags: rsa, crime, soca, agency

[14 Feb 2008]

silicon.com victory in Full Disclosure data campaign

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...

Tags: data loss, richard thomas, ico, campaign

[31 Jan 2008]

Minister calls for ID cards review

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.

Tags: id cards, national identity register, hmrc, investigation

[27 Nov 2007]

Gordon Brown orders data security spot checks

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...

Tags: hmrc, information commissioner, gordon brown, house

[22 Nov 2007]

Data sharing 'could sap public confidence'

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.

Tags: government, data sharing, confidence, public sector

[12 Nov 2007]

Credit card cover does apply overseas

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.

Tags: credit card, online shopping, banks, ecommerce

[02 Nov 2007]

Data breaches misunderstood by gov't, say Lords

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...

Tags: data breach, security, full disclosure, crime

[01 Nov 2007]

Police get powers to demand data decryption

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.

Tags: ripa, encryption, data

[04 Oct 2007]

Experts call for data breach legislation

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...

Tags: legislation, data breach, full disclosure

[14 Sep 2007]

Data breach laws 'make companies serious about security'

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...

Tags: law, data, full disclosure

[03 Sep 2007]

Leader: Time to rethink cyber crime priorities

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...

Tags: arrest, wi-fi, e-crime, police

[24 Aug 2007]

Why UK must pass data leak law now

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...

Tags: house of lords, data protection, security, full disclosure

[10 Aug 2007]

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