Industry kite-mark schemes do not offer sufficient protection to people shopping online, according to the head of a leading kite-mark scheme, Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG), which plans to redress the problem with a Rogue's Gallery.
But it will cost companies a lot more than £5,000 in bad publicity. The attack is in response to high-profile security breaches at Barclays and Powergen over the last month, which left industry watchers convinced that the DPC is lacking both the...
Besides the bad publicity, the companies mentioned above have got away with their cock-ups scott-free. The UK's Data Protection Act (DPA) covers serious security breaches of this kind. The internet is a viable medium for commerce, and consumers can...
A spokeswoman for AOL UK said: "We regard the integrity of our users' data as our top priority, and as such do not monitor or interfere with messages. If the consumers are happy to live with receiving "dirty" emails from their ISPs and refuse to...
The lawsuits and the publicity leading up to them are part of an education campaign - or scare campaign, as critics of the industry say. The NPD Group, which measures "music acquisition" by consumers, said that all told, people are downloading...
While most corporations have cleaned up the worm, Microsoft has found that a large number of home users are still unknowingly infected, the software giant said in a statement. Nimda, which hit computers a week after the 11 September 2001 terrorist...
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