law and government
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News Echoing concerns in the report, Thomas said in a statement: "There needs to be the fullest public debate about the justification for, and implications of, a specially created database - potentially accessible to a wide range of law enforcement... [15 Jul 2008]
UK must overhaul data sharing rules
News The law and its framework lack clarity. Whitehall has neither the framework nor the leadership to properly protect the public's personal data, a review by Information Commissioner Richard Thomas and Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust has... [11 Jul 2008]
BEA and HP Create a Stable, High Performance System for Inlichtingenbureau
White Paper Through the introduction of the Work and Social Assistance Law the financial risk no longer lies with the national government, but with the local councils. Inlichtingenbureau was set up to avoid each local council being overwhelmed with floppy... [09 Jul 2008]
Are banks going soft on e-crime?
News In its follow up report, the committee also urges the government to make it easier for victims of electronic fraud to get compensation, put funding in place for a central e-crime policing unit and create a data security breach notification law to... [08 Jul 2008]
Top Law Firm Relies on Storage From Network Appliance and 3PAR
White Paper One the top law firms in the United States represents clients in high-stakes litigation, complex financing and regulatory matters, government affairs, and corporate and technology transactions. So the customer looked into storage solutions that... [07 Jul 2008]
German District Council Expands to Manage Data Requirements of 10 Authorities With Virtualization
White Paper When a new German Administration Reform Law came into force, their aim was to promote streamlined management of local government administration and simplify IT environments, and their IT employees had to rapidly increase the processing power of... [06 Jul 2008]
Terrorists turning to tech, warns gov't
News Law-enforcement and security agencies could then combine information about anomalous behaviour centred around that event. This would eventually enable law-enforcement bodies to anticipate potential terrorist behaviour "ideally before the terrorist... [04 Jul 2008]
ICO: Data breach law moves closer
News The UK's privacy watchdog says the country is a step closer to getting a law forcing organisations to reveal data breaches, thanks to draft EU legislation. Deputy information commissioner David Smith said proposals to revise the EU's ePrivacy... [03 Jul 2008]
Jonathan Zittrain on why the internet is on a knife edge
News The Oxford University internet law professor argues the innovation that powered the growth of the internet and home computing was made possible by their open, "generative" structure, which allowed anyone to write software or build web pages. [30 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: Europe's copyright controversy
Comment In January 2008, the government published plans for reform of UK copyright law. But can a consensus ever be reached when the very principle of the law, and its implementation, is so inconsistent? Its award-winning technology, media and commercial... [18 Jun 2008]
Nasa hacker fights extradition
News Hearing his appeal will be the Law Lords, a group of senior judges. McKinnon's fate now hangs on the decision of the Law Lords, who will determine whether there was an abuse of process by the US authorities. [13 Jun 2008]
Cyber crime: The global battle
News There are 92 cyber crime task forces across the country made up, mostly led by the FBI, and composed of local law enforcement, government agencies and support partners. It links local criminal investigations to international law enforcement and... [05 Jun 2008]
Building a Case for IT Security Awareness: Best Practices for Increasing Impact and Promoting Cultural Change
White Paper Since the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) was signed into law in 2002, Federal agencies have struggled to establish agency-wide information security programs that meet baseline requirements for protecting information assets. [31 May 2008]
Critics attack gov't email, phone database plan
News We are at the very early stages of deciding how to update the law to allow public authorities to continue to obtain and have access to communications data essential for counter-terrorism and investigation of crime purposes. [20 May 2008]
Overcoming Mobile Enterprise Security Challenges
White Paper Increasingly powerful feature sets and rich functionality are driving the wide-spread use of mobile devices by banks, security and law enforcement agencies, government authorities and other security conscious organizations. [15 May 2008]
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