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[FYI] BOFHs will legally need licence to work
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- Subject: [FYI] BOFHs will legally need licence to work
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 21:08:12 +0200
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BOFHs will legally need licence to work
By: Kieren McCarthy
Posted: 10/05/2001 at 16:25 GMT
The ludicrous Home Office legislation that has accidentally involved
sysadmins in its aim to licence security people such as bouncers and
wheel-clampers has been passed in the last week of Parliament before
the election and is now law.
As we've reported before, thanks to some sloppy drafting the new law
failed to include the word "physical" when talking about licensing
security people, leading to the IT industry, the CBI, CSSA and FIPR
realising that the law essentially requires sysadmins to have a
licence.
Despite extensive lobbying by these groups and even a recognition by
the government that the legislation was not intended to include IT
folk, it actively prevented the clause being adjusted. The Bill has
now gone through its final stages and the amendment was voted out by
315 to 111.
The government's behaviour is inexcusable and it is hard to see it as
anything but spite because of the hard time the IT industry has given
the Home Office in the last few years because of its misplaced
legislation regarding computers and the Internet.
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