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Protection for Whom?

April 30, 1998

The Information Commission has released its controversial code of practice, which states that employers can no longer use covert ways to snoop on employeee-mail. Employers should provide staff with private e-mail and Internet accounts and cannot monitor e-mails – even if there is reason to believe they are of a personal nature. The code is designed to be a guideline for the RIP legislation. Paul Rutherford of Clearswift asks what this means for employers and employees alike? What does this mean for Internet and e-mail monitoring companies in the security arena that have products relying on this revenue income?…

Death by E-mail: Could the Overuse of E-mail Kill Off a Client Relationship?

April 30, 1998

Stephen Moore wonders whether the overuse of e-mail might kill off client relationships and looks at an alternative to e-mailed newsletters….

What Every Technology Lawyer Needs to Know about IT Security

April 30, 1998

Kit Burden explains why IT security matters, or should matter….

Recent Domain Name Developments

April 30, 1998

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is the non-profit intergovernmental corporation formed three years ago to assume responsibility for management of the domain name system. In that time, ICANN has developed the framework for the registration and management of domain names. But many commentators, including high level individuals within ICANN, have said…

E-Mail Search Warrants and Mary Queen of Scots.

April 30, 1998

Paul Motion explains the connection….

BS7799 – Why is it important?

April 30, 1998

And why, asks Ian Mann of ECSC (e-commerce security consultants) is an IT security consultant contributing to a law publication?…

Developing Successful Privacy Relationships

April 30, 1998

This is Robert Waixel’s report of the Privacy Laws & Business 15th Annual International Conference. Robert Waixel is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. He specialises in Computer Law in general and Data Protection Law and practice in particular….

Legal Aspects of Information Security Management

April 30, 1998

In internet commerce[1] where technology risks such as systems failure or attacks are particularly accentuated and the “risk turnaround time” is much faster, the need to design and develop a proactive and structured legal protection regime has become a corporate imperative. Zaid Hamzah points the way forward in designing and developing a legal risk management system in Internet commerce at both the strategic as well as the operational level that would protect enterprises from legal problems that might flow from information security risks….