The introduction of the forthcoming EU compliance directive, ‘EuroSOX’, could be chaotic, the Information Security Forum (ISF) has warned.

The EU’s landmark directives on corporate governance are due to start being passed into law by member states this summer, but already the ISF has spotted trouble ahead. The first problem is that each state will have to interpret and translate the collection of directives that make up EuroSOX, leading to subtle divergences of law between different states.

European data protection supervisor Peter Hustinx demanded some changes to a plan by lawmakers to link up all national criminal databases in the 27-member European Union, but broadly he supported the move, he said Thursday.

National governments and the European Commission want to build European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS), an encrypted network linking national criminal justice systems, allowing them to exchange information such as current and past criminal records about individuals.

Employers looking to perform a criminal record check on potential migrant employees could face difficulties, a leading employment lawyer has claimed. According to Stephen Levinson, an employment lawyer and partner at RadcliffesLeBrasseur, there is no global system to assist business owners wishing to verify the credibility of a job applicant from abroad. He said that [...]

A Sunday Times investigation has established that the CRB is passing files to more than 50 recruitment agencies and corporate investigators which check the background of people applying for jobs that may have nothing to do with children or other vulnerable groups. Some offer unlawful checks of potential business partners and staff, ranging from web [...]

Universities in the state of Georgia will have to report international students who miss seven consecutive days of classes or have an expired visa if a new bill to the authorities, currently being debated in the state House, gets approved. The Georgia Homeland Security in Education Act of 2007 seeks to implement stronger measures than [...]

Educational standards at universities in Australia have been brought into question after a report showed that one third of international students who received permanent residency in 2005-2006 after graduating from an Australian university did not have the English standards required for undergraduate admission.

The UK government is planning to introduce vetting procedures for all PhD students from outside the European Union studying subjects such as chemistry, physics or biochemistry.

BBC News Of the eight people arrested over the attempted car bombings in Glasgow and London, seven are doctors or medical students and one a lab technician, all with links to the NHS. Among them are three doctors who qualified in Jordan, India and Iraq. The NHS has traditionally depended on overseas doctors to help [...]

The Transport Personnel Security Review has embraced the whole of the transport industry in the UK – sea, land and air – including those parts of it operating internationally and under foreign ownership or control. It is not confined to those parts of the industry presently subject to security requirements[1]. It also includes firms providing services which are integral to transport – such as in-flight catering in aviation and maintenance engineering on the railways.

The Secretary of State for Transport (Ruth Kelly): Last December I commissioned an independent review of personnel security across the transport sector.  This followed Lord West’s review last year which focussed on physical infrastructure and confirmed that, although it is impossible to eliminate every risk, a robust transport security regime is in place. The review [...]