Meanwhile, the ICO has gone silent on the government's controversial and highly contentious plans to introduce biometric national ID cards and a central national database of citizens' data - not that the watchdog would scare the Home Office, which...
It limits the messages viewable by human eyes to those which are strictly included in the court order," said an FBI spokesperson. The US was one of the first countries to pass laws allowing this, through the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
Some ISPs want a mandatory code of conduct so they will not be held liable in cases where different laws conflict. We need the government to make the code of practice mandatory so the government gets sued when things go wrong and not us.
The controversy over the FCC mandatory wiretapping regulations comes as the Bush administration is facing increasing congressional pressure over its telephone and internet surveillance program overseen by the National Security Agency.
The UK anti-terrorism act also covers data retention by asking the government to create a code of practice or make a mandatory requirement for service providers within the next 12 months. The revised clause includes a line that encourages member...
It's unclear what the prospects are for mandatory data retention in Congress this year, or whether politicians will delay action until 2007. During Tuesday morning's appearance, for instance, Gonzales favourably cited a June letter endorsing...
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