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News In return, providers are given greater freedom to innovate in service delivery and even business strategy, with more emphasis on rewards rather than punishment to drive them forward. Global outsourcing has moved past corporate penny pinching...
[12 May 2008]
News Mark Lee, trust and safety manager for eBay UK, blamed the fact there was "no fear of real punishment" in the countries and highlighted the particular scale of the problem in Romania. Along with Romania, China and Russia were also pinpointed as the...
[10 Mar 2008]
News Skipton Financial Services (SFS) has been found to have been in breach of the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) - but has escaped without any punishment. This contrasts sharply with punishment meted out to the...
[21 Feb 2008]
News That's the view of more than a third (35 per cent) of readers who took part in the latest silicon.com poll and who believe the punishment for data loss should be much more serious. The next most popular punishment - voted for by 21 per cent of...
[14 Feb 2008]
News Hundreds of businesses in the city escaped punishment during a 30-day amnesty last November on unlicensed software by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an anti-software-piracy group. Security from A to Z
[07 Feb 2008]
News Currently] there is no effective punishment or deterrent available for those who knowingly or recklessly disregard the requirements of data-protection law in a way that causes a significant risk of harm.
[31 Jan 2008]
News The punishment for being caught driving while using a mobile doubled from £30 to a £60 fixed penalty fine and three points on the driving licence in February this year. The number of motorists flouting the law by talking on their mobile phones...
[04 Dec 2007]
News But he agreed that it's still unclear who will enforce punishment for non-compliance. MiFID investment banking regulations come into force, it is still unclear how prepared banks are - and what will happen to those that aren’t ready.
[03 Oct 2007]
News PC World has escaped punishment from the UK's advertising watchdog after one of its adverts appeared to suggest Intel's dual-core processors performed twice as quickly as single-core processors. A national press advert for the retailer featured...
[06 Jul 2007]
News On 27 February the punishment for using a handheld mobile while driving increased to £60 and three penalty points on the driving licence. Van drivers are being targeted by the government as it kicks off its campaign to stop people making phone...
[05 Mar 2007]
News There is also a punishment for anyone failing to impress: a punitive tariff, which will see any operator flouting the legislation compelled to introduce roaming charges lower than their competitors'. Holidaymakers and business travellers could soon...
[27 Feb 2007]
News In past cases the punishment has proven to be so effective that many have taken to calling it the 'Google death sentence'. Google has handed out one of its most effective punishments to BMW amid allegations the German car manufacturer was abusing...
[06 Feb 2006]
News UK banks will not face any action over a data breach in an Indian call centre last year, where an undercover newspaper reporter was allegedly sold bank and credit card details of 1,000 customers. The reporter was able to buy bank account, credit...
[13 Jan 2006]
News The certain knowledge that offenders will be pursued relentlessly if they try to avoid punishment will encourage them to pay their fine and do their community penalty. The government has allowed magistrates access to police intelligence records in...
[23 Sep 2005]
News The German 19-year-old who wrote the Sasser email virus, which caused havoc and huge financial damage to businesses worldwide last year, has escaped serious punishment. Sven Jaschan left the court in Verden, Germany, today on probation with a 21...
[08 Jul 2005]
News A company which sent nearly 1.4 million unsolicited emails promoting a bogus premium rate prize scam has been asked to clean up its act by the Office of Fair Trading - but has escaped punishment. However, there will be those who claim the lack of...
[06 Jul 2005]
News In such cases Gee said the NHS presses for a three-pronged punishment, to get the individual tried and sentenced, get losses recovered and get the individual struck off from future practice. The head of counter fraud within the NHS has told silicon...
[28 Jun 2005]
News Six of the seven resulted in police cautions and disciplinary action at work, while one paramedic from the Sussex Ambulance Service was sentenced to 100 hours community punishment last year. The NHS is investigating reports of paramedics selling...
[17 May 2005]
News The tech behemoth, however, has asked that the 19-year-old's punishment be converted from a fine to 225 hours of community service. Jeffrey Lee Parson, the teenager convicted of writing a variant of the Blaster worm, won't have to pay the $500,000...
[30 Mar 2005]
News Following the software giant's conviction for antitrust violations, Microsoft's efforts to meet the terms of punishment have not gone down well. The EC has yet to officially decide whether Microsoft has met the terms of its punishment as laid down...
[16 Mar 2005]
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