Tag Archives: security
Comparative law: chalk and cheese
On the same day as the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced a ban on BlackBerry Messenger, E-Mail and Web-browsing services from 11 October 2010, the Emirates News Agency (ENA) published a comparative law paper … Continue reading
Filed under Telecoms Regulation
Mid Staffs stuffed – but we can all learn from it?
Mid Staffs NHS Foundation Trust is one of the latest organisations to agree to give an undertaking to the Information Commissioner as a result of a data protection security breach. However, the circumstances of the breach are, we suspect, so … Continue reading
Filed under Data Protection
To fine, or not to fine: that is the question
Compare and contrast the following recent data protection cases: 1. HSBC: fined, after discount, over £3m by the FSA. 2. Ian Kerr: prosecuted and fined £5,000. 3. Highland Council: asked to give undertaking to get its laptops encrypted. The HSBC … Continue reading
Filed under Data Protection
“Wet fish” spamming
Phishing spam is a bane of modern life, but occassionally the phishing attempt is so bad that it can actually amuse (for a couple of seconds). Here is perhaps the lamest attempt we have ever seen.
Filed under Commercial
Sine Amicis – Another company loses data
Amicus Legal Limited is the latest in a long line of organisations being caught out by wandering laptops or USB keys: see the Information Commissioner’s Enforcement Page. It’s another case of a laptop theft – this time a consultant’s laptop … Continue reading
Filed under Data Protection
Is UK data security mission impossible?
A story in The Sunday Times that an agent of the Serious Organised Crime Agency had a memory stick containing details of all undercover agents being run in Columbia had parallels with the sub-plot in Mission Impossible concerning the ‘Non-official … Continue reading
Filed under Data Protection
Nothing gets in the way of “National Security”
Some of our team, as members of the Society of Computers and Law, argued in the SCL’s response to the Home Office consultation on the Data Retention Regulations that the Home Office had not made out a coherent case for … Continue reading
Filed under Data Protection, Telecoms Regulation
Password Security
We liked the guidance in the blog from Graham Cluley of Sophos on choosing passwords – see here. It is timely advice, given that a Sophos survey found that 33% of us use the same password for all our website … Continue reading
Filed under Data Protection
Andrew Sharpe
