Ignorance of E-mail Monitoring Rules in the UK

Source: OUT-LAW News

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act which came into force in October 2000 creates an offence of intercepting e-mails except in certain circumstances. In the case of employers, the rules for an employer to follow if wanting to monitor staff e-mail are set out in Regulations made under the Act, the Human Rights Act and a draft Code issued by the Information Commissioner (formerly the Data Protection Commissioner).

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For a copy of The Legal Guide to Employee Monitoring, contact David.

ARC is Accredited by the UK’s Largest Academic and Vocational Training Awarding Body

ARC is Accredited by Edexcel, the UK’s largest awarding body offering academic and vocational qualifications and testing to schools, colleges, employers and other places of learning in the UK and internationally.

In its first inspection ARC scored an A Grade. This confirms ARC’s position as firmly in the elite of professional development centres.

Encrypt Your Laptops and Flash Drives

In the UK 2 councils were fined £150,000 after theft of 2 laptops which, contrary to the councils' policies, staff failed to encrypt.

Women Travellers and Hostile Environments

It's naive to assume that gender is irrelevant when making hostile environment deployments, says the BBC. Click here for the full story.

Staggering Cost of UK Cyber Crime Revealed

The days of the old-fashioned bank robber pulling a stocking over his head, and robbing a bank, are almost over, reports Sky News.

"Bank robbers have to go to banks – in the modern world they don’t even have to be in the same country as a bank to rob it,” said Martin Sutherland, managing director of Detica.

The threat posed by password thieves, phishers and hackers on home computers is well known.

Cyber crime is costing Britain at least £27bn a year, mostly though the theft of industrial secrets.

According to the study, the UK loses £9.2bn a year through the theft of the innovations and designs which drive industrial growth - what is known as intellectual property.

Another £7.6bn is lost through industrial espionage. The industries worst hit are defence, automobile, pharmaceuticals, software and computer services along with mining, and financial services.

Another Moscow-Style Airport Attack Highly Likely

Intelligence provider Stirling Assynt predicts that "It is highly likely that further terrorist attacks against landside (airport) facilities will be attempted".

Meanwhile, world events have drawn attention away from the continuing possibility of another Mumbai-style hotel attack, but the threat remains, ARC will warn in its forthcoming Security Management Stage 1 Course, 14-25 March 2011.

Credit Card Fraud

A third of us - almost 15m people - have been hit by card fraud over the past five years, according to new figures. It is a sharp rise on the 27% of British consumers that had fallen foul of fraudsters just 18 months ago.

ARC's best advice when travelling abroad: Always carry cards from more than one issuer in case your card gets cancelled by your issuer as a result of suspicious activity. It hurts and there is no appeal!

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