What seemed to be the imminent extradition of British hacker Gary McKinnon to the United States was set back again after the Home Office agreed to review new psychiatric evidence. McKinnon's legal representatives were given fourteen days to come up with other ways of attack, after their request to have the case ... |
20 October 2009
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E-mail exchanges obtained by a member of the public under the British Freedom of Information (FOI) Act show the conversations between the UK Home Office and the Phorm advertising company. The archives, which have been sent to the BBC, show that the company influenced the way in which the authorities decided the polic... |
28 April 2009
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The British Home Office failed to properly decommission a domain name, which was later registered by someone else and used to host a morally questionable website. This caused the old links on its own pages, as well as various electronic documents, to direct visitors to the embarrassing content. The Home Office, form... |
7 April 2009
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The British media is reporting that UK's Home Office has adopted a plan that will allow police forces and secret service agents to hack into and monitor traffic from private and business computers without the need of warrants. The plan is bound to attract a lot of anger from civil liberties and human rights prot... |
6 January 2009
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An USB memory stick containing personal information of tens of thousands of prisoners from the UK has been lost, as the British Home Office confirmed. Although some of the objectives of the institution are related to safeguarding "people's identity and the privileges of citizenship," important information, such ... |
22 August 2008
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Loosing laptops containing vital information is more than a trend in the past years, it's growing to be a real fashion. Lately, the most reported cases had medical files and the computers they were on being front and center, but some bank blueprints and some government information being misplaced can't have... |
28 February 2008
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