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Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers

News One of the reports urged the European Commission and member states to avoid allowing measures that are in conflict with civil liberties, human rights and the principle of proportionality. However, another recommendation in the report called on the...

Tags: eu, isps, file sharing

[14 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! CEO: Business 'grey areas' are international obstacle

News said in late March it was setting up a human-rights fund to help victims of government censorship. During his visit to Washington DC, Yang also met with representative Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US house of representatives, as well as senator...

Tags: china, yang, yahoo

[04 Apr 2008]

Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?

Comment Earlier this month, Westminster's Joint Committee on Human Rights criticised the loss of 25 million child benefits records as typical of the government's "lax standards" on protecting personal information.

Tags: data protection, companies act, encryption, security

[27 Mar 2008]

Railway Infrastructure Leader on Winning Track With Information Protection Technology

whitepaper After eliminating many potential products and vendors, the company conducted a pilot study of Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) for Windows Server 2003. Balfour Beatty Rail, the world's leader in railway infrastructure, needed to...

Tags: infrastructure management

[28 Feb 2008]

'Big Brother IT' fuels workplace stress

News Privacy advocates say the surge in cyber snooping by bosses will land an increasing number of employers in court defending breaches of the Human Rights Act. Last year a college secretary from Wales represented by human rights group Liberty won a...

Tags: privacy, surveillance, stress, work

[08 Jan 2008]

Who's been reading your emails?

News Other legislation around email monitoring includes the Data Protection Act 1998 as well as the Human Rights Act 1998. If someone was accused of sexual harassment by a colleague for example, it would be most appropriate for the human resources...

Tags: emails, monitoring, legal, staff

[30 Nov 2007]

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]

Romanian Penitentiary Agency Implements New Prisoner-Records Management System

whitepaper The decision was part of the government's drive to improve its human rights record ahead of accession to the European Union in 2007. The National Administration of Penitentiaries in Romania decided it needed to modernise its prisoner-records...

Tags: application servers, administration, administrators, engine

[28 Sep 2007]

Identity Management Solution Saves $350,000, Speeds Development 25 Percent

whitepaper Likewise, changing employee access rights as they changed roles was also a challenge. Beyond the drag on employee productivity, the lack of an effective identity management solution was eating into IT budgets because several applications needed...

Tags: application servers, management solution, employee, identity

[28 Sep 2007]

Google proposes global privacy standard

News Google's proposal will be presented by Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy counsel in a speech today in Strasbourg, France, at UNESCO's meeting on ethics and human rights. While Google is leading a charge to create a global privacy standard...

Tags: doubleclick, disclosure, privacy, google

[14 Sep 2007]

Yahoo! fights China human rights suit

News spokeswoman said the company is a strong believer in human rights and it respects freedom of expression and privacy around the world. deeply sympathises with the plaintiffs and their families and does not condone the suppression of their rights and...

Tags: human rights, china, yahoo!

[28 Aug 2007]

Nasa hacker looks to Lords for appeal hope

News If the Lords appeal fails, the European Court of Human Rights "could be a place to apply", added Anderson. Gary McKinnon, the Briton who has admitted hacking into Nasa's computer systems, may be able to appeal to the House of Lords against his...

Tags: security, hacker, mckinnon, nasa hacker

[02 Aug 2007]

Leader: No China options for global net giants

Leader AGM this week shareholders voted against a proposition by the company to set up a human rights committee, with countries such as China very much in mind. A number of prominent internet companies, including Google and Yahoo!

[13 Jun 2007]

In Brief: Apple gets social, YouTube goes mobile, Yahoo! upholds censorship and IT disappoints

News At the company's AGM yesterday proposals to oppose internet censorship or set up a human rights committee to review such practices were both defeated. Apple is expected to announce a deal today to sell iTunes music through the Bebo social...

Tags: youtube, mysql, bebo, apple

[13 Jun 2007]

'Laptop security? Never heard of it...'

News Businesses must therefore also guard against what data can be transferred onto any device and Okin said business rights management is essential. As human error means users cannot be trusted not to lose a laptop and the threat of theft is ever...

Tags: security, wi-fi, laptop

[11 May 2007]

Monitoring staff email, internet? Read on...

News Monitoring employees' internet and telephone use at work may contravene human rights laws, after a landmark case in the European Court of Human Rights last week. The ruling means that the private use of company telecoms equipment and internet...

Tags: human rights, monitoring

[12 Apr 2007]

Amnesty: ISPs must safeguard free speech

News The human rights group Amnesty International has called on ISPs to do more to protect free speech online. that] continue to do the bidding of the Chinese authorities and deny people in China their basic rights to freedom of expression and...

Tags: free speech, amnesty, amnesty international, isps

[20 Feb 2007]

Vista: 'Expect hackers to find holes'

News Another target for hackers will be the system of user privileges - User Account Control (UAC), which can be used to restrict users' administrative rights. There's always going to be the human factor - people always get in there and disable stuff...

Tags: windows vista, vista, kaspersky labs, hackers

[12 Dec 2006]

Enemies of the internet named and shamed

News A list of 13 countries that represent a threat to freedom of expression on the internet has been published by human rights campaigners Reporters Without Borders. The group uses two criteria to justify the inclusion of countries.

Tags: libya, internet censorship, censorship, china

[08 Nov 2006]

US web stranglehold challenged

News Human rights groups, however, have warned that many of the nations most critical of the current arrangement - such as China and Iran - rank among the world's most repressive. A top UN official has called for changes to the way the internet is...

Tags: icann, un

[30 Oct 2006]

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