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The Weekly Round-Up: 11.07.08
Round-Up According to reports, such a law would force ISPs to warn, then disconnect, those customers they think have been sharing copyrighted material online. This week the Round-Up is weaving its words of wisdom while nursing a sore head after a week of... [11 Jul 2008]
Icann opens a can of worms
News John Mackenzie, of the law firm Pinsent Masons, said: "This has the potential for utter chaos. Our clients didn't want the .eu domain name but they felt they had no choice," he told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk last week. [30 Jun 2008]
SMS snitch pilot targets knife crime in schools
News The system is a joint venture between mobile transaction network mBlox and Anderson Software, LLC, which makes software apps for law enforcement, US Homeland Security and emergency management industries. [03 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment House of Lords backs data loss law change Would such a law cover disclosure of email addresses? And whatever happens with the law, government departments will be carefully and scrupulously made exempt from it. [01 May 2008]
Google: Yahoo! tie-up not anti-competitive
News Aaron Edlin, who teaches antitrust law at the University of California at Berkeley, said: "The general rule would be that if the arrangement substantially limits competition in some aspect of their business that would be problematic. [29 Apr 2008]
National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year
News The model will examine how the centre could capture, store and share information between government, law enforcement and other parties and provide a guide as to how much the centre will cost. We want to hear your views about this campaign and your... [28 Apr 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. It follows calls by the Information Commissioner Richard Thomas for the criminalisation of reckless data loss earlier this... [28 Apr 2008]
Police Facebook presence strikes privacy chord
News Roschke wrote: "Law enforcement use of applications will significantly expand the reach of what law enforcement can see and also provides a more surreptitious viewing ability. Last week, Greater Manchester Police became the first UK police force to... [22 Apr 2008]
Botnets: 'We're screwed', warn security experts
News It's going to take a lot more than education, technology and law enforcement. Botnets are the biggest global threat facing the internet today, according to security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week. [10 Apr 2008]
Security 'perfect storm' is a-brewing
News More law enforcement and police resources are needed to tackle the security "perfect storm" facing businesses today, a leading tech chief has warned. He said: "We need more resource for law enforcement. [09 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.08
Round-Up However, as it happens, the rather strange but law-abiding denizens of Second Life (no, not these guys… ) were the focus of attention this week as they made their case to Capitol Hill legislators that their world is safer and easier to police than... [04 Apr 2008]
Gambling site brought to its knees by 'unstoppable' botnet
News Bassill said: "This is a very worrying step we have seen in botnets, we have no way of responding to this without working with law enforcement. Gala Coral ecommerce's gambling sites were taken down for almost 30 minutes by the next generation 10Gb... [06 Mar 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment That growing influence of serious and organised crime in cyberspace is the focus of representatives from business, finance, government and law enforcement agencies at next week's sixth international e-Crime Congress in London. [27 Feb 2008]
Editor's Blog: Lords above!
Comment Of course, there're no easy votes in a data breaches law and no easy photo opportunity for any politician who might want to champion it - kissing servers isn't quite as appealing as kissing babies, I guess. [27 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Laptop losses, mobile ads, gas-guzzler charge, Vista backtrack…
Comment In the US they have a law on disclosure which boils down to - if it is encrypted you do not have to disclose what is therefore just the loss of a laptop, however, if it is not you must disclose and place yourself in the firing line for class... [21 Feb 2008]
