The Metropolitan Police (the Met) is investigating claims that a reporter at the Times newspaper hacked into an email account to unmask an award-winning anonymous blogger. 03 Feb 2012
The Information Commissioner is proposing to issue its heaviest ever fine for a breach of UK data protection laws. It proposes fining a health body after patient records were stolen from a hospital and sold on eBay. 12 Jan 2012
This guide is based on UK law. It was last updated in February 2008.
This guide is based on UK law. It was last updated in August 2008.
This article is based on UK law. It was last updated in June 2009.
This article first appeared in the Autumn 2003 issue of the OUT-LAW magazine. There is a chance that the law has changed, or the facts of this article have been superseded.
The Alliance for Electronic Business, sponsored by Pinsent Masons, produced these guidelines which give clear, commercial and practical guidance to SMEs in the UK on how to implement security policies and monitor the security of their systems.
If you have a report to make concerning illegal material on the internet you should contact the UK's Internet Watch Foundation, whether the material appears to originate in the UK or elsewhere.
If you have a report to make on the sale or use of illegal software, you should contact FAST or BSA.
(2-page PDF)
Technology Researchers have said that they have intercepted unencrypted smart meter data and used it to uncover details that represent an intrusion into user privacy. 11 Jan 2012
Technology Two teenagers who admitted to attempting to organise a riot in Dundee via Facebook while similar events were taking place in England have each been jailed for three years, according to press reports. 13 Dec 2011
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