The studio guests said it was imperative the government adopt a more focused approach to ecommerce as soon as possible. On this week's Behind the Headlines, silicon.com's studio guests evaluated a recent report from the Cabinet Office's Performance...
Smaller government agencies are better at doing this than large ones, he says, citing the example of Scotland, where the Scottish Executive has already started working with local authorities to put Norton's ideas into action.
MPs have warned that government agencies must stop using a range of laws to demand access to records of people's surfing activities if ISPs are not to be forced out of business. In a report on its inquiry into data retention, the All-party...
The Department of Homeland Security to recommend that ISPs adopt a "code of good conduct" The policy statement, called the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, largely backs off from mandating companies adopt certain measures.
Many government agencies and public sector bodies are unprepared to deal with data requests under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, which comes into force on 1 January 2005, according to MPs. The report by the House of Commons Constitutional...
Microsoft will share information about security problems with government agencies as part of its efforts to slow the spread of open source software. Gerri Elliott, corporate vice-president of Microsoft's worldwide public-sector unit, said under the...