Confidentiality RIP?
13 September 2012
A new bill could force companies to give police access to private business data. How damaging could this be for purchasing's relationships, asks David Arminas
Prime minister Tony Blair wants the UK to be the best place in the world for electronic trading by 2002. But if the soothsayers are correct about the imminent e-commerce interception bill, companies will shy away from doing business here.
The government promised, in a Cabinet Office report published last September, a “light regulatory touch” for e-commerce, in...