IBM plans to announce new data-backup software today, becoming the latest and largest entrant into the market for continuous data protection. IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files, which is slated for release on 16 September, is designed...
Bogus agencies are targeting software and IT companies with threatening letters demanding extortionate fees to register under the UK's Data Protection Act (DPA). The scale of the problem has forced the UK's data protection watchdog, the Information...
The UK Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) could come under scrutiny from the Trade & Industry Select Committee next month, over its ability to safeguard consumers' online personal details. Responding to silicon.com's 'Back the Act' campaign...
A revised EC data protection act, which is expected to take effect in October, will impose tighter regulations on the processing of personal information. Glyn Morgan, a partner in law firm Taylor Johnson Garrett, said IT managers must prepare their...
The headmaster of a UK primary school in Portsmouth who planned to broadcast video images of the school playground over the Web for security purposes, is fast becoming a test case for the forthcoming data protection act.
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.