OUT-LAW News, 22/09/2008
Europe’s privacy regulator has said that he will back a pan-European criminal records system only if specific data protection measures are put in place. Because the system deals with crime and security, EU data protection law does not currently apply to it.
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx has said that the [...]
Source: HM Treasury
Published Wednesday, 22 October, 2008 - 08:54
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) warned on 16th October 2008 of the higher risks of money laundering and terrorist financing posed by deficiencies in the anti-money laundering and countering-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) systems in Iran and Uzbekistan.
The FATF has also drawn attention to AML/CTF deficiencies in respect [...]
Four communities in England will start running background checks on possible sex offenders, similar to “Megan’s Law” in the U.S. The BBC reports that Warwickshire, Cambridgeshire, Cleveland and Hampshire will initiate one-year pilot programs allowing parents, guardians and caretakers to learn from police about any histories of abuse for people who have access to their children.
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.
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 designers [...]
According to KPMG’s US Background Screening Industry (Update April 08), “Demand for specialized or “niche” background screening products such as international background screening is expected to continue at accelerated rates despite a difficult macroeconomic environment.”