Compliance

Contract law does not assume an obligation of good faith. How can all parties ensure fair play?

Britain likes to think of itself as a nation of justice and fair play. Surely, you might think, the concept of 'good faith' must be one of those fundamental principles of fairness, like the laws of cricket or the Queensberry Rules, that we exported to the world? read more

Dr Sykes will help Cloud Industry Forum lead the charge for 'recognising standards within cloud provisioning'

CIO UK columnist and blogger Richard Sykes has been appointed the non executive chairman of the Cloud Industry Forum. Alex Hilton has been appointed CEO. read more

20% admit to not masking or protecting their customer data

A fifth of CIOs (20 per cent) admit to not masking or protecting their customer data before providing it to outsourcers for mainframe application testing purposes. read more

Customers will need a 'serious reason' to be in new UK site

European Salesforce customers will need a 'serious reason' to be hosted in the cloud giant's new UK-based data centre, which is due to open by 2014. read more

Industry CIO on change management, innovation, compliance, data management, budgeting, the cloud and risk

What are the pressures currently experienced by insurance industry CIOs and CTOs who are required to support business change, differentiation and innovation while maintaining a stable system of records - and all in these times of austerity? read more

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says it's 'not going to happen'

The UK government has abandoned plans to introduce its controversial Communications Data Bill, better known as the “snooper's charter,” which would have given security services sweeping powers to monitor internet activity. read more

Proposal to share airline passenger records between EU countries splits politicians

European Union politicians are at loggerheads following a vote in the European Parliament yesterday that rejected proposals to store and share information on airline passengers. read more

The law rarely comes down in favour of software sub-licensees, but that could be changing...

This month's addition to the list of 'Aspects of the ICT industry where the law is too slow to adapt' is sub-licences. read more

Abandoned and silent calls from outsourcer revealed following investigation as part of Ofcom’s monitoring and enforcement programme

Ofcom has fined TalkTalk £750,000 for making an excessive number of abandoned and silent calls to potential TalkTalk customers in 2011, through two of its outsourced call centres. read more

Digital rights groups say the European Commission must act to protect net neutrality

More than 80 European digital rights organisations called on the European Commission to do more to protect net neutrality. read more