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House of Lords to Criticise Government’s e-Crime Response
The House of Lord’s Science and Technology Committee are to call upon government ministers to re-address their recommendations for e-crime. The recommendations were published as part of the Personal Internet Security report published in August, with a follow up paper published on 8 July 2008.
Lord Broers, Chair of the internet safety committee said:
“In our initial report we raised concerns that public confidence in the internet could be undermined if more was not done to prevent and prosecute e-crime. We felt that the Government, the police and the software developers were failing to meet their responsibilities and were quite unreasonably leaving individual users to fend for themselves.
Some of our recommendations, such as the establishment of a specialist e-crime police unit, are now being acted on by Government. But others, such as software developers' liability for damage caused by security flaws and enabling people to report online fraud directly to the police rather than their bank, have either been ignored or are awaiting action.”
The debate comes at the end of National Identity Fraud Week and after the announcement of the new dedicated police e-crime unit (PcEU) last week.
The debate will be held on Friday October 10 at 12pm when it will be broadcast live on: www.parliamentlive.tv and then available for 28 days afterwards.
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