August 2005 Articles

    • UK Gov must meet biometric standards on ID cards

      31 Aug 2005

      Any national identity card introduced in the UK will have to meet new international standards for biometrics.

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    • Viral marketing hamster complaint rejected by ASA

      31 Aug 2005

      A provider of corporate five-a-side tournaments has dodged a complaint over a viral marketing advert  that showed a hamster in an exercise ball being kicked like a football. The complainant, who felt it condoned animal cruelty, learned of the clip...

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    • Man pleads guilty to selling Windows source code

      31 Aug 2005

      A man pleaded guilty on Monday to selling portions of the source code for the Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 operating systems after the Microsoft code was illegally leaked onto the internet last year, according to reports.

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    • Recruiters fined for data protection offence

      31 Aug 2005

      A South Wales recruitment agency has been fined £2,000 for breaching the Data Protection Act, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said yesterday. Abacus Recruitment Ltd had failed to notify the Commissioner, as required under the Act....

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    • Feds' data mining breaks privacy rules, says report

      30 Aug 2005

      Five federal agencies in the US that use data mining techniques to collect information are not fully complying with the privacy and security requirements necessary to protect the individuals affected, according to the Government Accountability Office...

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    • Cost replaces expertise as outsourcing's main driver

      30 Aug 2005

      Cost-cutting has replaced special expertise as the main reason for company outsourcing, according to a survey by analyst firm Evans Data Corporation. Twenty-eight percent of respondents cited cost savings as their outsourcing driver, up from 15% five...

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    • Three spammers face obscenity and CAN-SPAM charges

      30 Aug 2005

      Three spammers were indicted in Pheonix last week for sending obscene spam in violation of US anti-spam regulations. The three were also charged with breaches of federal obscenity, money laundering and conspiracy laws.

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    • Banning possession of extreme porn: UK consultation

      30 Aug 2005

      The Home Office and Scottish Executive are seeking views on plans to make it an offence to possess images that depict scenes of serious sexual violence and other obscene material. At present such content is generally illegal to publish but legal to view....

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    • IT procurement: how to avoid brand discrimination

      29 Aug 2005

      The UK’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has issued brief guidance on how public sector agencies should word their procurement contracts to avoid breaching EU rules on non-discrimination that were passed last year.

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    • Two arrested over Zotob worm

      29 Aug 2005

      Authorities in Morocco and Turkey have arrested two men in connection with a worm that disrupted services on the computer networks of CNN, ABC, The Financial Times and The New York Times, the FBI said on Friday.

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