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Gov't spends £18m on comms surveillance
News A code of practice for the retention of communications data by ISPs was approved by Parliament in 2003. Grants for ISPs and telcos to store this information were made available both under section 106 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act... [07 Aug 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News Thomas said privacy was already being quietly eroded, citing examples of the expansion of the DNA database and the centralised collection and retention of data from automatic number plate recognition cameras. [15 Jul 2008]
Businesses have mixed feelings on IM
News This means many are at risk of failing to comply with regulations around the retention of communication data. Businesses are shying away from adopting instant messaging technology (IM) despite seeing the benefits it can have in the workplace. [11 Jul 2008]
Gov't data retention - how much is too much?
News At present it is unclear whether the draft bill will call for data to be stored for up to two years by ISPs, as required from 2009 by the EU Data Retention Directive, or ask for it to be kept by government in a centralised database. [10 Jul 2008]
Critics attack gov't email, phone database plan
News The UK currently has a voluntary system of data retention that asks telecoms providers to keep subscriber information and phone data for 12 months and basic email, web and text data for six months. Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming... [20 May 2008]
Google launches online security tools
News The cost rises to £12.50 per user for the top version - Google Message Discovery - which also includes a year's worth of message data archiving, retention and search. The Google software as a service (SaaS) security tech has been developed through... [05 Feb 2008]
Data sharing shake-up on the cards
News The code addresses what the ICO says are the main data protection issues of information security, accuracy of information and retention periods. The framework is designed to help organisations achieve good practice and comply with the Data... [14 Aug 2007]
Keep call-log data for a year, telcos told
News The Data Retention Regulations, which transpose most of the EU Data Retention Directive into UK law, were approved by the House of Lords and signed into law last week by Jacqui Smith. The Data Retention Regulations stipulate that communications... [31 Jul 2007]
Privacy screw tightened at Microsoft, Yahoo!
News The major search engines are racing to outdo each other in updating their data retention policies in an attempt to assuage concerns that they keep consumer search data too long. Microsoft is today set to announce plans to permanently remove the IP... [23 Jul 2007]
EU may push Google further on privacy
News However, Dix said that a bigger concern was the anonymisation of server log data, and that the only major search company to disclose its server log data-retention policy so far is Google, which anonymises server logs after 18 to 24 months. [19 Jul 2007]
Surveillance culture erodes personal privacy
News This is due to rapidly increasing CCTV coverage and collection and retention of personal data, the report said. The Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance report acknowledges the benefits of these technologies but also raises issues - such as privacy... [26 Mar 2007]
Google has data-retention change of heart
News Google is changing its data retention practices to make it harder to identify the specific computers used in searches. Google's servers log information every time someone conducts a web search, keeping data such as the keywords used, the IP address... [15 Mar 2007]
ISP data retention issue heading for Congress
News The attorney general suggested "reasonable" data retention is necessary to help investigators of online sex crimes, and members of Congress and state attorneys general voiced support for legislation mandating the practice. [19 Jan 2007]
Data headache looms for mobile operators
News Mobile phone operators and internet telephony companies will soon face the "onerous burden" of getting their systems compliant with new European data retention regulations. The EU Directive on Data Retention requires communication service providers... [08 Jan 2007]
Firms 'wait and see' as MiFID deadline looms
News The November 2007 deadline and the need for data storage and retention are also listed as problems for technology chiefs. The City will have to spend around £1bn getting ready for the next big piece of European financial services regulation. [28 Nov 2006]
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