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Parliament, Spy Agency Contracts Exempted From Ombudsmans Gaze

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2008-05-20 02:54:26 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
...Parliament and Canadas spy agency from oversight by a new ombudsmans post that was central to the 2006 Conservative election campaign The government slipped the exemptions through last week in regulations that empower the contract procurement ombudsman under the Accountability Act - flagship legislation the government introduced as its first...
 
Tags: contracts, review contracts, ombudsman, parliament, contract procurement ombudsman, opposition mps, ombudsmans statutory duty, canadas spy agency, insert heavy sarcasm
 
 
 
 
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EU bloggers under assault by the European Parliament - they need your help

2008-06-12 08:38:35 by HASH0x8b6ca50 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Parliament has decided that in the interests of "media pluralism", all blog owners should declare their ownership, affiliations and status of weblog authors The explanatory notes of the proposed regulation says this In this context the report points out that the undetermined and unindicated status of authors and publishers of weblogs causes...
 
Tags: bloggers, weblog authors, authors, legal status, blog owners, status, blog, bloggers rights, european parliament
 
 
 
 
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Swedish parliament approves bugging bill, after delay

2008-06-18 00:00:00 by HASH0x8bf40d8 in Network World on Security
 
On Wednesday evening the Swedish parliament voted to approve a bill that will make it possible for local authorities to monitor e-mails, fax messages and telephone calls
 
Tags: swedish parliament voted, telephone calls, local authorities, monitor e-mails, fax messages, bill, approve, wednesday
 
 
 
 
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EU bloggers under assault by the European Parliament - they need your help

2008-06-12 09:38:11 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Parliament has decided that in the interests of "media pluralism", all blog owners should declare their ownership, affiliations and status of weblog authors The explanatory notes of the proposed regulation says this In this context the report points out that the undetermined and unindicated status of authors and publishers of weblogs causes...
 
Tags: bloggers, weblog authors, authors, bloggers rights, freedom, legal status, blog owners, basic freedom, status
 
 
 
 
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Hacking tool guidance finally appears

2007-12-31 17:50:32 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Parliament rises in July and by the summer they usually mean before the party conference season in September. But it seems that when a minister tells a Lords Committee the end of the summer they mean the last day of December. Well it has been pretty cold recently , so I expect that concentrated their minds This summer event which can be...
 
Tags: bad, bad people download, cma offence, offence, bad guys, guys, offence stage, tool, article widely
 
 
 
 
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Stolen UK Ministry of Defence laptop affects up to 600,000

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2008-01-20 14:51:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Parliament at the earliest opportunity Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said he would be demanding answers from the MoD over the loss of the data and why it was unencrypted We will require satisfactory answers from the MoD about their data protection practices and a firm assurance that steps have been taken to improve these practices...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, extensive personal data, personal data, personal, information held, data protection practices
 
 
 
 
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Dutch RFID Transit Card Hacked

2008-01-21 06:35:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Parliament recently invited the students to give testimony; they're more than a little bit interested how $2B could be wasted My guess is the system was designed by people who don't understand security, and therefore thought it was easy
 
Tags: dutch, chip, mifare classic chip, mifare chip, dutch parliament recently, circuitry, internal circuitry, secret cryptographic algorithm, statement abut
 
 
 
 
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Computer Misuse in Scotland

2008-02-14 20:25:22 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Parliament has used a Sewel motion ( here for the Police and Justice Act , and here for the Serious Crime Act ) to keep the law in both jurisdictions the same HOWEVER as Clive points out for some currently unknown reason the Scots brought the first version of the amendments into force on 1st October 2007 with this statutory instrument So...
 
Tags: act, computer misuse act, computer misuse, justice act, crime act, scotland, law, law stands, offences stops
 
 
 
 
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U.K. launches first Internet Governance Forum

2008-03-08 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473a30 in Network World on Security
 
The U.K. Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was held at the Houses of Parliament on Thursday, with representatives from Nominet, the Specialist Crime Directorate, MPs and a British ambassador
 
Tags: internet governance forum, specialist crime, british ambassador, mps, parliament, held, houses, representatives, thursday