CyberLaw Blog

Archive for September 1st, 2008

Bidisha: New legislation will outlaw extreme porn – I’m all in favour: “Bidisha: New legislation will outlaw extreme pornography – even the kind some photographers like to call art. I’m all in favour”

(Via guardian.co.uk Comment is free.)

Letter lottery determines your exposure to spam: “The amount of spam in your e-mail inbox may depend on the first letter in your address, reveals a study.”

(Via BBC News.)

Government data protection standards are protected data: “

We could tell you, but then we’d have to kill you

As yet another laptop full of confidential data goes up for sale on Ebay – this one belonging to Charnwood Borough Council – the government’s failure to set and publicise standards for wiping data makes it inevitable that there will be many more, and worse, incidents of this kind.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Arrest made over personal data-filled laptop sold on eBay: “Police have made an arrest in connection with the eBay sale of another laptop computer containing personal data. The security lapse follows last week’s eBay sale of a computer containing one million people’s banking details.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)