It will come with Computer Associates' BrightStor ARCserve Backup data-protection software and eTrust Antivirus software. The Iomega server in the product will be a Windows-based machine with up to 1.28 terabytes of usable capacity.
He said: "I think Elizabeth France makes some very sensible comments about data protection, but I don't think her office has the capacity to enforce the law. But the proof, as they say, is in the pudding.
The prospect of long-term wrangling between EU and US authorities over data protection has been side-stepped by an industry-led compromise. Silicon.com learnt today that TrustE, the US forum set up to monitor industry self-regulation of data...
UK companies stand to suffer more than the rest of Europe if last Thursday's 1998 Data Protection Act (DPA) damages trade between Europe and the US, according to a leading IT security consultant. Europe is much tougher on the use of personal data...
07.10.1999: IT services group, NCC, is warning that changes to the UK's Data Protection Act could catch companies unawares. After the Act is amended, users will have the right to demand to see what information is being held about them, but a survey...
Peter Sommer, a research fellow at the London School of Economics and an adviser to the House of Commons' select committee on trade and industry, said the data protection legislation has been too weak in the area of enforcement up until now.