Another objection is that presumption of innocence has been reversed, putting the onus on the user to prove they don't have access to an encryption key - rather than on the police to prove they do. Tim Conway, director of the CSSA's information age...
Many industry groups would like to see Part III removed from the Bill altogether. As a general principle, Part III sits awkwardly with the government's aim to encourage ecommerce," he said. The Home Office thought it had come up with an acceptable...
A key differentiator of instant messaging and that other pillar of electronic communication - email - is that there is no inherent way of storing, managing and searching through instant messages where as the email inbox has rapidly become the...
Software distribution sites like those of SourceForge and the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network would be outlawed, if they did not follow these byzantine legal rules, which include obtaining "verifiable parental consent" if the downloader is a...
The voicemail records messages from callers when Skype users are not available. Skype Voicemail is much like traditional voicemail in that users can record original outgoing messages and receive messages up to 10 minutes long.
As of last September telecoms providers must keep all text and phone call records for up to two years under an EU directive, and this is to be rolled out to include all online traffic by 2009 at the latest.