It has been a busy week for statements about enforcing on-line copyright, though no clear direction has yet emerged. In the UK the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport told a parliamentary select committee that the Government would not require ISPs to disconnect their customers without a court order; on the other hand, [...]
The all-party parliamentary communications group (apComms) have published the results of their enquiry into various aspects of internet security – entitled “Can we keep our hands off the net?” – to which JANET provided written evidence earlier in the summer. We responded on two of the five questions, relating to the work of the Internet [...]
I’ve been reminded that at last year’s Network Strategy Workshop I promised to keep you informed about Government policy on handling personal data…
Most readers will remember the incident a couple of years ago when two CDs containing bank details of a significant proportion of UK adults were lost in transit somewhere between HMRC and the [...]
The UK Information Commissioner is developing a series of Codes of Practice on various areas of data protection that often cause problems. The intention is to provide practical recommendations of good practice, rather than to discuss the minutiae of the law. To achieve this, the Codes are written in plain English, with plenty of illustrations [...]