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Google pulls plug on Yahoo! ad deal
News Assistant attorney general, Thomas Barnett, who leads the Justice Department's antitrust division, said in a statement: "The companies' decision to abandon their agreement eliminates the competitive concerns identified during our... [05 Nov 2008]
Cops enlist HAL in fight against crime
News Law enforcement is dealing with increasingly complex cases where they need to look for connections between events and people among a large volume of data and they need to gather the evidence very quickly. [05 Nov 2008]
UK Plc feels abandoned to cyber crime onslaught
News The government has said that from spring 2009 PCeU will co-ordinate law enforcement of all online offences and lead national investigations into the most serious e-crime. UK businesses are increasingly being targeted by... [03 Nov 2008]
CEOs told - take responsibility for 'toxic' data
News In the speech Thomas warns the flow of data breaches and sloppy information handling continues - despite high profile data losses being widely reported and the threat of enforcement action. CEOs must take more... [29 Oct 2008]
£273m in IT projects axed by UK
News Ministry of Justice m spent on the National Enforcement Tracker System when it was cancelled in August 2007 after being judged to no longer be providing value for money. Almost £300m-worth of public sector IT projects... [20 Oct 2008]
Police fraud centre ready for takeoff
News She said: "I will have staff ensconced in that centre so that as reports start to come in, and industry has got somewhere to report fraudulent transactions, we can try to provide law enforcement. Detective superintendent... [02 Oct 2008]
Can £7m dent £105bn cyber crime menace?
News From spring 2009 the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), announced yesterday by the Home Office, will co-ordinate law enforcement of all online offences and lead national investigations into the most serious e-crime. [01 Oct 2008]
Lib Dems banned from automated calling
News The Liberal Democrat Party has been issued with an enforcement notice, a legal order to stop the activity within 30 days. The Liberal Democrats have been found to be in breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communications... [26 Sep 2008]
'Broken: E-crime policing in the UK'
News Michael is spearheading the creation of the Internet Crime Reduction Partnership (ICRP), a stakeholder group that will bring together industry, government, civil society and law enforcement to tackle the online threats... [15 Sep 2008]
Leak fears could set bosses spying on staff
News Predicting behaviour has been discussed and discarded in law enforcement because the patterns and outcomes never match the expectaions. Big brother bosses will increasingly be tempted to turn to staff surveillance to... [04 Sep 2008]
Robots on the beat by 2084
News But in the wrong hands, as warned in the movie, robot law enforcement could be a major blow to individual privacy and basic human rights," he added. Robocop will become a reality within the next 75 years according to a... [13 Aug 2008]
Consumers reluctant to give financial details online
News In reaction to the results, Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said in a statement: "If organisations fail to meet their data protection obligations they not only risk enforcement action by the ICO, they also risk... [12 Aug 2008]
iPhone 2.0 cuts business mustard, says Gartner
News The iPhone also follows Windows Mobile devices when it comes to setting parameters for password enforcement policy. Apple's 3G iPhone smart phone is fit for business use, according to analyst house Gartner. [11 Aug 2008]
UK at risk from repeat of US hack attack?
News There has not been a lot of pressure and enforcement to ensure that they are keeping to the PCI DSS. UK shoppers credit card details could be at risk from the same wireless hack technique that snared more than 40 million... [06 Aug 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News The ICO's annual report also revealed it had issued nine enforcement notices for data protection breaches this year to bodies including Carphone Warehouse and Greater Manchester Police, and had carried out 11 prosecutions. [15 Jul 2008]
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