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The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up Minister for Digital Britain Stephen Timms said the government is committed to passing its law to charge landline owners a £6 per year tax to pay for rollout of next-gen broadband in the UK.... [25 Sep 2009]
Digital Britain fibre tax 'to be law before next general election'
News Stephen Timms, Minister for Digital Britain and financial secretary to the Treasury, said the government is committed to making its £6 per year tax on landlines law to pay for rolling... [23 Sep 2009]
Panda Security Helps Haven Health With Its Network Security in Accordance With the HIPAA Law
White Paper Panda Security for Business with Exchange provided this in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), proactively protecting patients' health information due to his commitment to... [01 Sep 2009]
Crime in Focus
White Paper Crime mapping will also be an important channel through which to broadcast and exemplify law enforcement successes. Crime mapping has become part of an official UK Government 'pledge'.... [25 Aug 2009]
'Completely unworkable': The plans to track your web habits
News The main telcos have found it difficult to standardise the format [of data] to hand over to law enforcement," said Hutty. The level of complexity of standardising the format in linking [data as proposed under IMP] is... [05 Aug 2009]
Extradition for Nasa hacker rules high court
News McKinnon had tried to argue that former home secretary, Jacqui Smith, was wrong in law to push for the extradition despite his diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome, and that the director of public... [31 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet PCeU is a police unit that co-ordinates the law enforcement of online offences nationwide and leads investigations into the UK's most serious e-crime incidents, such as those where more than 10,000... [20 Jul 2009]
Soca's cybercrime cops score 21 convictions
News But since then there has been regular criticism from businesses that online fraud and crime has not been a high priority for law enforcement. As well as fighting homegrown criminals, Soca also focuses on... [15 Jul 2009]
eLENS: The Emergent Law Enforcement Network Security Initiative - Bridging the Gaps in eCrime Data Sharing
White Paper As the Internet provides the communication artery for government, commerce, and society, threats and crimes leveraging Internet infrastructure cannot be ignored; the effectiveness of... [14 Jul 2009]
50p broadband tax 'will leave 20 pc of UK without fibre'
News Neil Brown, telecoms partner at law firm Eversheds, shares BT's view that 50p won't go far enough. BT reckons a government plan to put a 50p tax on copper lines in order to fund fibre broadband to the... [02 Jul 2009]
'Don't let European telecoms law get axed', says Ofcom
News At the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (Ecta) conference in Brussels on Thursday, Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards said if the Telecoms Package failed to become law by the end of this year, it would... [26 Jun 2009]
Britain to get official cyber attack dogs
News In addition, the OCS plans to launch a cyber-skills strategy to address skills gaps in government and industry, and work with other countries to develop international... [25 Jun 2009]
CIO finishing school set to open doors
News The centre will be able to draw on expertise from other schools within the university, including the Cass Business School and City Law School, when developing the courses. The other part of the centre's... [23 Jun 2009]
Web snooping plans unworkable, say critics
News Existing law is based on the old telephone system, where it was easy to separate out communications data," Sommer said on Tuesday. Professor Peter Sommer and Gus Hosein, an LSE visiting fellow, published... [18 Jun 2009]
Preventing data loss - what's needed
Comment The UK's MPs may rue the day a disk listing details of their expenses was leaked to the Daily Telegraph from the House of Commons Fees Office earlier this year, but they were going to be made public at some point anyway, courtesy of the... [16 Jun 2009]
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