A few months ago, the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee issued a report about e-crime. The group,made up of peers from the British House of Lords, called the Internet “the playground of criminals” and made several recommendations to make it safer and increase the trust of Internetusers. Among its recommendations were a central reporting agency for e-crime, improved data security for online companies and banks through an incentive system, and a logo for sites withguaranteed secure service. All those might seem quite sensible, but they’ve been quietly rejected by the British government, according to the BBC. Ina statement, the government claimed, "The government does not agree with the implication that the public has lost confidence in using the internet. The continuing increase of trading onthe internet, with year-on-year growth of 80% in some areas, does not support such a view…As such, we would refute the suggestion that … lawlessness is rife." In response, the Earl ofErroll accused the government of having an ostrich approach to the problem by simply ignoring it. “The reply just says that the government ‘do not see that there is a need for this’,” hesaid to the BBC. “If you have no idea of the scale of the problem, how can you design solutions?"
