Home Secretary
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UK officials going snoop crazy
News Officials made more than 500,000 requests to spy on private phone and Internet information in the United Kingdom last year.
Tags: Security, Request, Home Secretary, Sir, phone, London, Silicon.com, billing, Internet Service Provider, Internet
UK govt denies developing mass surveillance tech
News Security experts point out that while the U.K. government has denied intercepting and recording content, it avoided saying anything about traffic data.
Tags: Data security, Privacy, Home Secretary, Database, Spokesperson, Britain, Government, phone, University of Cambridge, U.K.
UK police slash paperwork with mobiles
News From next week, law enforcers in the United Kingdom will use handheld devices to enter data during street searches, which can help cut each process from 20 minutes to 60 seconds.
Tags: Employee communications, State Government, Politics, Mobile, Home Secretary, Officer, Mobile Device, handheld computer, State Government, CIO
UK public targeted by 1,500 monitoring bids per day
News Liberal Democrats claim the United Kingdom has "sleepwalked into a surveillance state" after public authorities make more than half-a-million interception requests in one year.
Tags: Network security, Authentication and encryption, Security, Home Secretary, Democrat, Commissioner, monitoring, technique, service provider, Network security
Beware Olympic cybercrime chaos, urges former UK politician
News Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe 2009 conference, former U.K. home secretary David Blunkett says that attacks are taking place but not being talked about.
Tags: Network security, Home Secretary, Attack, Internet Attack, Accommodation, Infosecurity Europe, London, U.S. Government, theory, U.K.
UK govt outlines Facebook monitoring plans
News In a consultation launched on Monday, the U.K. Home Office described how it wants service providers to retain and process data about their users' activities on social networks and other third-party services.
Tags: Network security, Data mining & analysis, Web 2.0, Home Secretary, Database, IP Telephony, Compensation, communications service provider, Government, Facebook
Nasa hacker judicial review date set
News A U.K. High Court judicial review date has been set for the case of Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon.
Tags: Lawsuits, Defense/military, Hacking, NASA, Home Secretary, prosecutor, Sharp Corp., Pentagon, appraisal, computer
Report: Some UK govt databases may be illegal
News A quarter of U.K. government databases could contravene European human-rights laws, according to an independent body of experts.
Tags: Data mining & analysis, Databases, Regulations, DNA, Security, Report, Home Secretary, Government Database, European Court, Database
UK ID cards head for the high street
News The Ú.K. government plans to let customers high street outlets like the Post Office, pharmacists and photo shops to scan photos and fingerprints for ID cards.
Tags: Biometrics, Home Secretary, Card, ID Card, photograph, identity fraud, post office, managing director, Benefit, Biometrics
UK losing faith in ID cards?
News A single, compulsory document combining passport and driving license would prove more popular than proposed ID card, says U.K. Member of Parliament.
Tags: Security implementation/standards, Home Secretary, Conference, Identity, Spokesperson, ID Card, Government, job, U.K., Security implementation/standards
Opposition party highlights flaw in UK govt comms data plans
News The Conservatives have raised concerns about who will have access to communications-traffic data, but welcome a halt to plans for a single, centralized database.
Tags: Data security, Database management, Government, Home Secretary, Spokesperson, communications service provider, Flaw, phone, user-ID, U.K.
IBM, CSC win UK ID card biometrics contracts
News IBM will build and run the biometrics database behind the National Identity Register, while CSC will implement processing and enrollment systems, including online passport applications.
Tags: Biometrics, Business applications, IBM Corp., Home Secretary, Booth, Database, ID Card, Passport, U.K., bank
UK beefs up huge snooping database
News U.K. Home secretary Jacqui Smith has stressed the importance of government surveillance of comms data in the fight against terrorism and serious crime.
Tags: Home Secretary, Database, phone, Silicon.com, IM, VoIP, Microsoft Office, Internet, monitor, Web
UK unveils ID cards for foreign nationals
News Britain's Home secretary Jacqui Smith has unveiled ID cards for foreign nationals, drawing criticism from opposition parties and campaigners.
Tags: Security, Biometrics, Home Secretary, Supplier, Democrat, Database, ID Card, Government, U.K., biometric fingerprint
One million people's details could be culled from UK database
News The European Union rules the United Kingdom has violated human rights by keeping DNA details and possibly fingerprints of about 850,000 people suspected of a crime.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, Database management, DNA, Crime, Home Secretary, European Court, Database, European Union, Steve Ranger
