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News ICO Global Communications last week said it has failed to raise $600m in financing from strategic investors only two weeks after being rebuffed by the wider investment community. Analysts are now saying that Iridium's well-documented problems are...
[16 Aug 1999]
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has called for amendments to UK data-protection laws, including making "reckless" data breaches an offence. The powers of the ICO are limited. For the most part, the ICO cannot impose a penalty for a...
[31 Jan 2008]
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said it is vital the government resists pressure to withdraw clause 76 as the bill passes through parliament. An ICO spokesman said: "We want to deter people from the illegal buying and selling of data.
[01 Apr 2008]
News ICO Global Communications, the third largest mobile satellite services (MSS) provider, has said its rights offering to raise at least $500m by a 27 July deadline has failed. Setbacks affecting fellow MSS players Iridium and Globalstar have made...
[02 Aug 1999]
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said it needs more power and resources to deal with spammers. Speaking at today's Westminster eForum on spams and scams in London, David Evans, senior guidance and promotion manager for the ICO...
[06 Sep 2005]
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said this week it lacks the power to fight spam because the government has not had time to discuss implementing effective powers. According to a senior member of the ICO, the regulator lacks the necessary...
[14 Sep 2005]
News Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has won a $130m (£78m) contract to supply and run its Business Operations Support System (Boss) for ICO Global Communications. ICO also announced today that NEC and Mitsubishi will provide the handsets and...
[30 Jun 1998]
News Cellular phone pioneer Craig McCaw has come to the rescue of troubled satellite telephony firm, ICO Global Communications. In August, ICO filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US. Richard Greco, CEO of ICO, said the financing should...
[02 Nov 1999]
News In the wake of the largest-ever data breach to hit the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office has criticised the apparent lack of technological safeguards in government departments and called for "privacy-enhancing technologies" to be built...
[23 Nov 2007]
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has resolved less than half of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act complaints it received last year. Since the FoI Act came into effect last January, the ICO said it has resolved 1,082 complaints out of...
[13 Jan 2006]
News HM Revenue & Customs' loss of 25 million details of people claiming and receiving child benefit was the catalyst for a surge of data-loss reports, an ICO spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk.
[18 Feb 2008]
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has admitted it fails to take legal steps against UK spammers while "successfully" enforcing regulations against 13 fax marketers. The ICO, the UK's last official port of call to complain about spam, said...
[11 Aug 2005]
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has threatened the retail giant with possible prosecution after the unencrypted data on a laptop was stolen from a contractor in April 2007. The ICO served the enforcement notice on 23 January after M&S...
[25 Jan 2008]
News Data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has published guidelines outlining how motorists' personal data can be used by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). The ICO guide attempts to explain the circumstances...
[04 Sep 2007]
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned that young people are putting themselves at risk with the information they post on social networking sites and blogs. According to ICO research, just over 70 per cent of young people said they...
[23 Nov 2007]
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is asking that "knowingly or recklessly" breaching the Data Protection Act (DPA) could be made a criminal offence, as part of a series of amendments to the act.
[31 Jan 2008]
News Shares of satellite mobile phone company, ICO Global Communications, failed to perform as expected on their first day of trading on Nasdaq. However, Olof Lundberg, chief executive at ICO, took a more optimistic view, saying its first day of trading...
[04 Aug 1998]
News Barclays Bank faces an Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) investigation over allegations of customer privacy breaches. The ICO move follows a nine-month investigation by the BBC's Whistleblower programme into working practices at the bank's...
[26 Apr 2007]
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has published advice on data protection for small and medium-sized enterprises. The ICO explains how to handle requests from individuals whose data the SME holds.
[13 Feb 2007]
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned UK businesses to be on the lookout for fake data protection notices. The two men, from Burnley, charged their victims between £95 and £135 a time - up to £100 more than the ICO charges...
[25 Oct 2006]
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