MPs have warned that government agencies must stop using a range of laws to demand access to records of people's surfing activities if ISPs are not to be forced out of business. In a report on its inquiry into data retention, the All-party...
The OECD guidelines promise to make it easier for member governments to collect evidence and practical help from foreign agencies, and to otherwise increase international cooperation in the prosecution of spammers and other cross-border frauds.
These are all aspects of the broader truth: European governments tend to be more invasive than their American counterparts. Statistics compiled by the European governments bear this out. Other examples abound.
Microsoft is facing increasing pressure from alternative products as state and federal governments move to level the playing field between proprietary and open source software. Canberra recently released a guide to agencies' procurement of open...
A Microsoft representative said in an emailed statement: "Feedback from these agencies as well as enterprise customers informed Microsoft's development of a security configuration guide to aid governments and other large organisations in deploying...
These are only the latest examples in a long list of public sector data security failures. But although sharing data makes sense for most public sector organisations, it means securing data is akin to holding water in a sieve - when multiple...