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UK officials going snoop crazy
News Home Secretary Jacqui Smith welcomed the reports and said these surveillance powers helped to protect the public. Officials made more than 500,000 requests to snoop on private phone and internet information in the UK last year. [23 Jul 2008]
Defra to ditch desktops and PDAs
News Defra permanent secretary Helen Ghosh unveiled the plan as part of its Renew IT Programme to the parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee, as revealed in its recent report. Second permanent under secretary of the Ministry of Defence, Sir Ian... [16 Jul 2008]
Gov't to ramp up IT outsourcing?
News Secretary of State for Business John Hutton promised a "long-term commitment to open up public service markets" that will make it easier for the private sector to win IT contracts. The government has also pledged to make the public sector bidding... [11 Jul 2008]
ID cards face student scorn
News Site forums so far have raised fears about data security and governments abusing the information despite the glowing assessment of the scheme offered by home secretary Jacqui Smith as she launched the site on Wednesday. [09 Jul 2008]
ID cards: 'Political' move, claim airport workers
News Wiltshire's comments follow a Bata letter of protest sent to the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, this week, signed by the chief executives of British Airways, BMI, EasyJet and Virgin Atlantic. Roger Wiltshire, secretary general of Bata told silicon... [07 Jul 2008]
Nasa hacker fights extradition
News An extradition order was signed in July 2006 by the then home secretary John Reid. Gary McKinnon, the Briton who has admitted hacking into Nasa systems, is due to fight his extradition to the US in the House of Lords on Monday. [13 Jun 2008]
Time to bin ID cards?
News But shadow home secretary David Davis said: "Along with growing evidence of the risks and costs of ID cards, we have seen declining commercial interest, reflected in the dwindling numbers bidding for contracts. [23 May 2008]
ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill
News Home Office spending on consultants shot up from £7.6m in 1997/98 to £147m in 2006/07, a period described by shadow home secretary David Davis as the "worst period in its 200-year history". The UK's ID card scheme has helped fuel a 2,000 per cent... [11 Apr 2008]
UK businesses: No one cares about cyber attacks!
News Elliott said the BCC will be raising the issue of cyber crime policing with the Home Secretary and the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo). A higher proportion of small companies (those with less than 50 staff) and employees working from... [09 Apr 2008]
Cyber crime: Police not taking it seriously
News Shadow home secretary David Davis said a crime is committed online in the UK "every ten seconds" - costing UK businesses £10bn a year. Cyber crimes such as hacking, denial of service attacks and online fraud are not taken seriously enough by the... [07 Apr 2008]
Social networks to stamp out sex offenders
News In a statement, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said: "We are working together with police, industry and charities to create a hostile environment for sex offenders on the internet and are determined to make it as hard as possible for predators to... [04 Apr 2008]
UK 'failing on cyber crime'
News Shadow home secretary David Davis said a crime is committed online in the UK "every ten seconds" - costing UK businesses £10bn a year.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit. [03 Apr 2008]
Police backs calls for e-crime unit
News Shadow Home Secretary David Davis launched a stinging attack on the government's track record for tackling e-crime, saying it had exposed every person and business in the UK to online criminals. Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie, who has... [12 Mar 2008]
e-Crime Crackdown - silicon.com launches national campaign
News The campaign has received backing from the Metropolitan Police, Shadow Home Secretary David Davis, a former White House cyber security adviser, blue chip FTSE 100 companies, the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), UK payment industry body... [12 Mar 2008]
ID cards chief defends u-turn
News Shadow Home Secretary David Davis launched a further attack, citing the risk of a massive data breach on the system. H is for Home Office James Hall, director of the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), told silicon.com the revised scheme is likely... [10 Mar 2008]
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