justice
£500,000 fine coming for businesses that lose data?
News The Ministry of Justice yesterday launched a public consultation on the maximum amount such fines can run to - a figure it proposes should be set at £500,000. Organisations that lose individuals' data could face a fine... [12 Nov 2009]
Financial Transactions and Personal Data Security - Is Your Customers#$# Data Safe?
White Paper In 2007, a major Canadian bank lost a computer backup file that contained individual personal data of 470,000 of its customers.3 In 2008, Statistics Canada confirmed that a theft of completed census questionnaires had occurred.4 And as... [11 Nov 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News Apparently so, according to David Wall, professor of criminal justice and information society at the University of Leeds. Scareware is bad for your PC and your pocket - but the fake security warning messages popping up... [19 Oct 2009]
Safran (MorphoTrak, Inc.) Improves Performance 200% to 300% With Scalable and Efficient Database
White Paper Safran wanted to optimize performance of the Printrak Biometric Identification Solutions (BIS) system used by criminal justice and civil agencies to manage identification data and ensure meeting contractual obligations... [02 Oct 2009]
Leading NGO Generates £5 Million in Revenue With e-Commerce Solution
White Paper Oxfam Great Britain is a leading, non-government agency that works with thousands of partner organizations around the world to help people living in poverty and promote social justice. To help strengthen its brand and... [02 Oct 2009]
John Suffolk
AS Profile He has been government CIO since June 2006 and prior to this he was director general of the government's £2bn Criminal Justice IT programme. As the man with the burden of overseeing the annual public sector IT spend of... [30 Sep 2009]
Martha Lane Fox
AS Profile Lane Fox has shown a commitment to tackling difficult social issues, setting up the Antigone Foundation in 2007 to support medical, criminal justice and educational charities. Martha Lane Fox earned her place in the... [30 Sep 2009]
US ramps up probe into Microsoft-Yahoo! search deal
News Both companies have long expected the US Department of Justice to scrutinise the deal to install Microsoft as the exclusive search provider for Yahoo! confirmed on Friday that the US Justice Department... [14 Sep 2009]
County of San Joaquin Information Systems Division Modernizes and Integrates Law and Justice Systems
White Paper The County of San Joaquin Information Systems Division is the central IT organization serving the County of San Joaquin, which is a midsize California county with a population of more than 600,000. It needed to replace an outdated and... [01 Sep 2009]
Secure Data Deletion and Recovery
White Paper This data includes criminal records in justice departments, medical records at hospitals, mental health information, military secrets, and innumerable other data, distributed across countless systems. [29 Aug 2009]
'You can't sell Word' ruling: Microsoft files formal appeal
News We do not have the gargantuan financial resources of Microsoft, but i4i has the protection of fairness under the US justice system. Microsoft filed its formal appeal late on Tuesday of a patent infringement ruling that... [27 Aug 2009]
Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo! join fight against Google Books
News Reback was responsible for compiling evidence to aid the US Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft on behalf of Microsoft's Silicon Valley adversaries. The Internet Archive is enlisting some heavy... [21 Aug 2009]
Oracle-Sun deal gets official US stamp of approval
News Oracle said on Thursday that the US Department of Justice has approved its plan to buy Sun Microsystems. Oracle declined to comment beyond a statement confirming the Justice Department's move. The... [21 Aug 2009]
Largest hack and ID theft in US: Three suspects charged
News The breach involving Heartland and the others is believed to be the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted by the US Department of Justice. Two Russians and a Florida man were charged on Monday with... [18 Aug 2009]
Mobile Biometric Identification
White Paper Adding a wireless dimension to Biometric Identification Systems (BIS) provides a more efficient and reliable method of identity management across criminal justice and civil markets. Yet deploying cost-effective portable... [15 Aug 2009]