The Joint Committee on Human Rights has said that the Government must make the Digital Economy Bill more detailed to allow Parliament to scrutinise it properly.
The government's bid to push the digital economy bill through has been dealt another setback after Sion Simon, the creative industries minister appointed to pilot the legislation through parliament for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, announced he is to stand down as an MP.
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Lord Lucas, a Conservative peer, has tabled several amendments to the
An NHS trust at the forefront of work on the £12.7bn NHS IT scheme has called in police after a breach of smartcard security compromised the confidentiality of hundreds of electronic records.
The Commission today moved to the second phase of an infringement proceeding over the UK to provide its citizens with the full protection of EU rules on privacy and personal data protection when using electronic communications.
TalkTalk, the second largest internet service provider in the UK, has threatened to launch legal action if business secretary Peter Mandelson follows through with his plan to cut off persistent illegal filesharers' internet connections.
Carphone Warehouse-owned TalkTalk, which has more than 4 million ISP
The police and intelligence services are calling on the Government to drop plans to disconnect persistent internet pirates because they fear that this would make it harder to track criminals online.
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Members of the public could earn cash by monitoring commercial CCTV cameras in their own home, in a scheme planned to begin next month.
The Internet Eyes website will offer up to £1,000 if viewers spot shoplifting or other crimes in progress.
From today we are inviting developers to show government how to get the future public data site right - how to find and use public sector information.
The developer community through initiatives such as Show Us a Better Way, the Power of Information Taskforce, MySociety and Rewired State have consistently d
The author of the research which provided the backbone to government plans for retaining DNA on the database has questioned whether it can be relied on to construct policy.
The government was forced to issue new rules on the retention of innocent people's DNA n the database after a European Court of
In a landmark ruling that will set legal precedent, the Paris Court of Appeals decided last week that the company Edu4 violated the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) when it distributed binary copies of the remote desktop access software VNC but denied users access to its corresponding source co
The French National Assembly has now adopted the final bill on the sanctions side of the three-strikes Creation and Internet bill to tackle illegal file-sharing, by 258 votes in favor and 131 against.
Proposals to overhaul the libel laws and update them for the internet age have been revealed by the government.
Changes proposed by the Ministry of Justice could see the end of the 160-year-old "multiple publication rule".
A five-year research programme, called Project Indect, aims to develop computer programmes which act as "agents" to monitor and process information from web sites, discussion forums, file servers, peer-to-peer networks and even individual computers.
Its main objectives include the "automatic detection
Demon Internet sent thousands of business and government subscribers an email this morning telling them all about a new e-billing system, and tacked on details, including passwords, for 3,600 customers.
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Hyatt Hotels has become just the fifth company operating in the UK to use a complex process that allows it to send personal data around the world without breaking EU rules.
The Home Office is refusing to release 'research' it carried out which was meant to prove just how very keen young people in the UK are to get hold of a delicious ID card.
The department blew almost £80,000 setting up a site to find out what people aged between 16 and 25 thought of ID cards.
John Brian Agdomar, from Hackey in East London, used his job as a civil servant at the Department for Work and Pensions to illegally access personal records, including dates of birth and national insurance details.
Agdomar, who is believed to have accessed more than 2,500 records illegally, worked w
The second European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) took place in Geneva on 14-15 September and brought together some 200 representatives.
The music industry dispute over illegal downloading intensified yesterday after talks between record labels and a rebel group of artists broke down.