Tag: Bill

  • Why NIST’s Bill Burr shouldn’t regret his 2003 password advice

    Back in 2003, an engineer called Bill Burr wrote the official guidance on password security for the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), since widely referenced as the last word on the subject for government departments, large organisations and, latterly, consumers. Fourteen years on, and a year after NIST overhauled the document from…

  • Government accepts recommendations on telco national security Bill

    The Australian government is pushing ahead with the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016 after accepting all recommendations made by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS). A joint statement by Communications Minister Mitch Fifield and Attorney-General George Brandis said the Telecommunications Sector Security Reforms (TSSR) will establish a framework for better…

  • UK Introduces Data Protection Bill to Replace GDPR After Brexit

    It follows, then, that US companies that operate in compliance with the UK Data Protection Bill will (or should) be automatically in compliance with GDPR. The reverse is not necessarily true. Read full news article on SecurityWeek  

  • Security industry welcomes planned UK Data Protection Bill

    The government has announced the details of the planned UK Data Protection Bill as part of its commitment to update and strengthen data protection laws and bring UK law into line with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Download this free guide Data protection: Read full news article on ComputerWeekly  

  • UK Department for Digital puts forward Data Protection Bill draft

    The UK government will soon put forward a new data protection bill which is hoped to refresh the 1998 Data Protection Act in line with the EU’s planned implementation of the general data protection act (GDPR) in May 2018. A step up from British Prime Minister Theresa May’s pledge to implement such a bill during…

  • Re-identifying people from anonymised data will be a crime under Data Protection Bill

    The government is planning to impose criminal sanctions on people who intentionally re-identify individuals from data that should have protected their identities. The plans will be set out in the UK’s Data Protection Bill – due to be introduced to parliament next month – and could see an unlimited fine levied on people guilty of…

  • UK Writes GDPR into Law with New Data Protection Bill

    The pressure is now on for UK organizations to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) after the government announced its intention to write the legislation officially into law in the form of a new Data Protection Bill. The proposed bill will upgrade the UK’s privacy laws for the digital age, providing consumers…

  • Government formally announces new Data Protection Bill – keeping in line with EU’s GDPR

    Digital Minister, Matt Hancock, has formally announced the government’s intent to overhaul its data protection laws, in the form of a new Data Protection Bill, to keep the UK in line with the EU’s forthcoming GDPR law. The new Data Protection Bill will update the current Data Protection Act, which was introduced in 1998, and…

  • Coming soon to a Parliament near you – UK’s Data Protection Bill

    The UK’s new legislation on data protection is to get its first airing in Parliament next month, the government has said. The Data Protection Bill, announced in the Queen’s Speech at the end of June, will replace existing data protection legislation on both corporate data and data processing by law enforcement agencies. Read full news…

  • New IoT Bill Proposes Security Standards for Smart Devices

    By this time, almost every one of you owns at least one internet-connected device—better known as the “Internet of things”—at your home, but how secure is your device? We have recently seen Car hacking that could risk anyone’s life, Hoverboard hacking, even hacking of a so-called smart Gun and also the widespread hacks of insecure…

  • UK Data Protection Bill, Incorporating GDPR, Expected in September

    UK’s Data Protection Bill, which was announced in last month’s Queen’s Speech, could be introduced in Parliament in just a few weeks. The UK legislation is expected in September, according to the UK’s Department of Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), which confirmed to security researcher and training specialist Chris Pounder that “we’re aiming to…

  • New Bill Aims to Address Gaping Holes in IoT Security

    A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is hopeful that new legislation could fill holes in the way Internet of Things (IoT) devices are secured – typically as an afterthought – at least for public sector buyers. Read full news article on Talkin’ Cloud