The UK government already has the power to demand that services remove encryption thanks to a 2016 piece of legislation called the Investigatory Powers Act. ButThe Guardiannotesthat WhatsApp has never received a request to do so. Atleast one commentator thinksthe same could happen with the Online...
Investigatory Powers Act of 2016, which authorizes law enforcement to compel assistance from companies to access user data. “The law, known by critics as the Snoopers’ Charter, makes it a criminal offense to reveal that the government has even made such a demand,” the Post reported. “App...
Instead Parker used the interview to justify the passage of the draft Investigatory Powers Act. Robert Harrington, the normally reclusive head of GCHQ, wrote an opinion piece for the Financial Times in which he made the case for a new understanding between the security services, social media ...
The extent of investigations and the timeliness of dealing with complaints have both been areas of criticism. For example, in 2020, a group of cross-party Members of the UK Parliament wrote complaining about the performance of the UK’s Information Commissioner.Footnote 3 Such complaints are not...
Although numerous anonymous communication applications exist, due to the volume of media criticism attracted, indicating its role in a rise in acts of cyberbullying in the United States of America; this article focuses on the anonymous bulletin board Yik Yak. To demonstrate the limitations present ...
who also chose the Chair. The ISC reported to the PM, who decided what if anything of any report might be published. There was criticism that the relationship between the ISC and the PM and the agencies was too close and that it did not have the independence needed to provide proper over...
Investigative Committee chief Alexander Bastrykin said, apparently responding to criticism of the case, that investigators had not only shown steady resolve and integrity in pursuing the matter, but had done so in the face of intimidation. Bastrykin did not elaborate on the nature of the threats...
A further difficulty is the Secretariat’s reluctance to publicly answer the IAEA’s critics, leaving the Safeguards Department undefended and vulnerable to misunderstanding and further criticism. The previous Director General, Yukiya Amano, noting that it was sometimes difficult for Member States and ...
who also chose the Chair. The ISC reported to the PM, who decided what if anything of any report might be published. There was criticism that the relationship between the ISC and the PM and the agencies was too close and that it did not have the independence needed to provide proper over...
With these two aspects of the FCA’s approach in mind, we turn to where the FCA’s focus on enforcement may be for 2018. Two particular areas in which we are likely to see increased action are those where the FCA has received recent criticism: money laundering enforcement and individual ac...