Regulation

ACTA ‘Could Be Buried Before The Summer’

The decision on the controversial agreement will not be delayed by referral to the European Court of Justice

12 years ago

Ofcom Delays EE 4G Decision

Ofcom will not give final approval until 8 May for Everything Everywhere to use existing spectrum for 4G

12 years ago

DECC Hopes To Slash Cost Of CRC Carbon Tax By 60 Percent

Will the Department of Energy's proposal, to save each participant £6000 per year, be enough to save the tax?

12 years ago

Oracle: Cabinet Office Deal to Save Taxpayers £75m

Oracle aims to break government silos in reduced data contract with Cabinet Office

12 years ago

O2 Must Hand Over Details Of Alleged Porn Users

O2 Broadband must give details of over 9,000 alleged filesharers to pornographer Ben Dover - but it doesn't mean they…

12 years ago

Three May Sue Ofcom For Letting Everything Everywhere Launch 4G

Three CEO David Dyson says Ofcom has threatened competition by letting EE run LTE

12 years ago

MPs Threaten New Laws If Google Won’t Censor Searches

Cross-party committee tells government to consider legislation if Google does not develop filtering technology to preserve privacy

12 years ago

Government Names PSN Scheme Suppliers

The Cabinet Office has named twelve network companies providing the Public Sector Network

12 years ago

US Regulators Demand Consumer Privacy Protection

The US' Federal Trade Commission is putting pressure on Congress and IT companies to better protect user privacy

12 years ago

4G Auction Faces Legal Delay As Three Upgrades Network

3UK is about to upgrade its network capacity to buy time for legal action over the 4G spectrum auction, say…

12 years ago

Government Outsources Universal Credit IT To India

The DWP signs agreement with Accenture and IBM to establish delivery centres in India

12 years ago

Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links In Live Messenger Chat

Live Messenger links to Pirate Bay blacked out by Microsoft

12 years ago

Facebook Condemns Employers Asking For Job Seekers’ Passwords

Facebook is officially pushing back against employers who want job applicants to disclose their Facebook passwords

12 years ago

Prototype Approved App Marketplace Launched By US Army

The US Army has launched a marketplace prototype for approved apps while the Air Force has bought into the iPad…

12 years ago

European Project Probes Attitudes To Privacy

European attitudes to the trade-off between privacy and security are to be examined by a group of researchers

12 years ago

Agency Officials Say Spies Have ‘Penetrated’ US Networks

Security experts warn Senate to assume that federal networks have been compromised by spies

12 years ago

O2 Joins Vodafone In Questioning Ofcom’s EE 4G Decision

O2 has added its voice to those questioning Ofcom's decision to allow Everything Everywhere to deploy a 4G LTE network

12 years ago

EC Warns Youth Are Not ‘Digitally Competent’

European Commissions launches European e-Skills Week 2012

12 years ago

Apple and Facebook in US App Privacy Probe

US Congressmen ask for info on what data social app makers are taking

12 years ago

ZTE Sold Surveillance Equipment To State-Owned Iranian Telco

ZTE reportedly signed a deal in 2010 to provide broad monitoring equipment to Iran

12 years ago

Cory Doctorow: How Privacy Can Make Money

Privacy is a business opportunity, given the right technology foundations, says science fiction writer and activist Cory Doctorow

12 years ago

TalkTalk Tops Ofcom List Of Worst Broadband Providers

According to the UK regulator’s data, TalkTalk and Orange are once again the nastiest companies to deal with

12 years ago

Vint Cerf ‘Puzzled’ by Google Privacy Furore

Google's Vint Cerf defends the new privacy policy, but admits it wasn't presented well

12 years ago

Iceland To Use Open Source Software For All Public Sector IT

This year, Iceland's public institutions start to shift to open source

12 years ago

Budget 2012: Osborne Forgets The Needs Of Tech

It's not what George Osborne said that was disappointing, it's what he left out, says Tom Brewster

12 years ago

Budget 2012: Goodbye To the CRC Green Tax?

George Osborne may be right to call the CRC cumbersome, but he needs to create something to take its place,…

12 years ago

Orange To Launch 4G Networks Across EU By 2015

Orange makes commitment to roll out 4G, NFC and reduce carbon emissions to the EU in Brussels

12 years ago

The ‘New Dell’ Talks Public Sector Problems And HP’s Fall

We talk with Dell's Kevin Jones and Tim Sheppard about attacking the public sector market and its rivals' troubles.

12 years ago

Budget 2012: Osborne Sets Out Ultrafast Broadband Plans

Chancellor of the Exchequer emphasises UK's need for world-beating broadband infrastructure

12 years ago

French Watchdog’s 69 Probes Latch Onto Google’s Privates

French regulator CNIL reveals the 69 questions it asked on Google's privacy policy

12 years ago