ICL has reported an operating loss for its end of year results but claims it is still on track for IPO later this year. Profit before tax for the year ending 31 March 2000 was £96.1m - up from a loss last year of £128.9m.
The UK is in desperate need of revisions to laws that govern the disclosure of information relating to data loss or theft, according to security experts. Currently UK organisations that lose sensitive customer or employee data, or expose it to...
The loss by HM Revenue & Customs of 25 million child benefit claimant records has understandably sparked a host of reactions from security and legal experts. Ovum principal analyst Graham Titterington encapsulated the scale of the event by saying...
MPs have called for the reckless loss of computer data and personal information to be made a crime but IT industry leaders and legal experts have urged the government to avoid knee-jerk legislation. The committee said organisations should be...
The IT industry is divided over whether new laws are needed to make the reckless loss of personal information by public and private sector organisations a criminal offence. He said: "Making data loss a criminal offence is maybe a step too far.
That's the view of more than a third (35 per cent) of readers who took part in the latest silicon.com poll and who believe the punishment for data loss should be much more serious. The poll follows on from the HM Revenue & Customs loss in November...