laws
RSS lawsEurope: Brace yourself for a telecoms overhaul
News The Telecoms Reform package, which consists of a set of new laws tackling subjects ranging from data breach notifications to faster number porting, will become law in every EU country by May 2011, it was agreed on... [05 Nov 2009]
'UK must up privacy safeguards following Phorm'
News The EC has criticised the UK government for failing to uphold European privacy laws The European Commission has said the UK government doesn't have adequate communications privacy legislation and must step up its efforts. [30 Oct 2009]
Developing a Sustainable and Cost Effective IT Compliance Program
White Paper Complying with laws and regulations is an increasing burden for organizations, from the board of directors down to the trenches of business. In a nutshell: business is complex and global, and the demand upon IT to comply... [05 Oct 2009]
Basel II Compliance With Tripwire: Configuration Control for Virtual and Physical Infrastructures
White Paper Unlike other laws and standards affecting financial institutions in the US and overseas such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ("GLBA"), the EU Data Protection Directive and the PCI Data Security Standard, however, the... [05 Oct 2009]
Business Success in a Dark Market: An Inside Look at How the Fraud Underground Operates
White Paper Much like a real-world business, fraud "Entrepreneurs" offer products and services for a profit, they fight to gain competitive advantage and market share, are continually innovating to improve their offerings and meet the needs of... [05 Oct 2009]
Using the Six Laws of Persuasion in Negotiations
White Paper This On-Demand Web Seminar will teach you how to be more successful in negotiations. By mastering the persuasion process, you'll be able to deliberately create the attitude change and subsequent actions necessary for persuading others to... [01 Oct 2009]
Tough Love: When IT Security Hurts Your Business
White Paper As the pace of IT commoditization accelerates in response to laws like Sarbanes-Oxley, some security departments find themselves at odds with IT and the business. One solution that seems to work is to engage more with... [01 Oct 2009]
Laws, regulations and compliance: Top tips for keeping your data under your control
White Paper The challenge of complying with a growing number of frequently changing government, industry and internal regulations designed to protect data is becoming harder and more expensive to manage. This paper outlines the rules, looks at the... [30 Sep 2009]
Bletchley Park's Alan Turing gets official apology
News Alan Turing, the mathematician and cryptographer whose work played an essential role in the efforts of codebreaking-centre Bletchley Park during WWII, received a posthumous apology from Prime Minister Gordon Brown last week for Turing's... [14 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: 3G Reality bytes
Comment For sure you can't run roughshod over the laws of physics, and to get anything like the advertised 3G data rate you would have to sit on top of the cell tower! Compiled on BA 215 flying London to Boston and dispatched to... [14 Sep 2009]
How green credentials are shaping IT contracts
Comment The contracts expand on the fairly standard requirement that the supplier must comply with "all laws" by specifying a list of voluntary code and behaviours to which the supplier is also contractually bound. [10 Sep 2009]
Google Books hit with fresh wave of criticism from Microsoft, Open Book Alliance
News The Open Book Alliance's brief compares Google's Book Search settlement to a modern-day version of the cartel involving John Rockefeller's Standard Oil and the railroad industry, which eventually led to the Sherman Act's antitrust... [09 Sep 2009]
Unencrypted details of 43,000 pupils on stolen laptop
News By allowing unencrypted data to be downloaded onto the laptop, the council breached data protection laws, according to the Information Commissioner's Office. Wigan Council has agreed to encrypt all data on portable... [07 Sep 2009]
Amazon steps up Google Books criticism with court filing
News Back in 2004, when Google began scanning books from libraries, it believed it had the right to scan the entire text of a copyright-protected book under fair-use laws so long as it only displayed a snippet of the contents. [03 Sep 2009]
Facebook faces lawsuit over privacy concerns
News A group of Facebook users filed a civil lawsuit in the US on Monday that alleges the social networking site is violating California consumer privacy laws. The 40-page complaint accuses the social network of violating... [18 Aug 2009]
