advancement. This was published in The Daily Telegraph, with the headline "Cyber security experts say they are being prevented from stopping computer fraud". In July 2020, the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament, responsible for oversight of the UK intelligence services, published the Intelligence and Security Committee Russia report and recommended that "the Computer Misuse Act should be updated to reflect modern use of personal electronic devices". While the government response to the report said that the Act was regularly reviewed to determine the benefits of legislative change, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, Lisa Nandy, highlighted in January 2021 that no progress had been made towards implementing the recommendation. In November 2020, the CyberUp Campaign and techUK published a new report on the Computer Misuse Act, which was the first piece of work to quantify and analyse the views of the wider UK security community. The report found that 80 per cent of cyber security professionals have worried about breaking the law when researching vulnerabilities or investigating cyber threat actors. Furthermore, 91 per cent of businesses that responded to the report’s survey suggested they had been put at a competitive disadvantage by the Act, and that reform would allow their organisation to reap significant productivity improvements, growth and resilience benefits. The report recommended that the government consider implementing the two above amendments. See also Computer crime Internet fraud Data Protection Act 1998 References Neil MacEwan, "The Computer Misuse Act 1990: lessons from its past and predictions for its future" (2008), Criminal Law Review 955. Stefan Fafinski, Computer Misuse: Response, Regulation and the Law (Cullomption, Willan 2009) Yaman Akdeniz, Section 3 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990: an Antidote for Computer Viruses! (1996) 3 Web JCLI including reference to the case of Christopher Pile (aka 'the Black Baron') in November 1995. Derek Wyatt, Computer Misuse Act (amendment) speech The Law Lords' ruling Notes External links The Internet Crime Forum EURIM – IPPR E-Crime Study Wording of the failed 2004 amendment bill Amendments to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 covered by the Open Rights Group A list of Computer Misuse Act cases compiled by Michael J L Turner United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1990 Computing legislation Hacking (computer security)