France and Germany have already told their citizens to avoid Microsoft’s Internet Explorer because of a critical hole in the browser, so what does the British government think? The problem emerged late last week and both governments reacted with a simple warning – use another browser until this is fixed.
Three days later [...]
The London Internet Exchange (LINX), which represents over 330 ISPs – including many UK broadband providers, has made its response to the governments consultation on controversial Internet snooping plans public. The group warned that many important questions remained unanswered, such as precisely what data should be stored, costs of such storage, the impact upon a [...]
ISPs, technologists, law enforcers and governments are wrangling over how the Internet should be regulated, but it is obvious what is the best way forward, says Axel Pawlik of RIPE.
The Digital Britain report proposed that ISPs should adopt a more active regulatory role to help curb piracy and the distribution of illegal content. Yet [...]
BT (Wholesale Division) is confident it can cope with the extra demands the swine flu pandemic may put on the UK’s broadband network. It follows a meeting with the Government and emergency services which raised doubts about whether the network could cope. There were concerns it could freeze as more people suspected of having the [...]
The UK government has published the final ‘Digital Britain report’ in an attempt to describe the digital future economy. The 245-page report can be downloaded in full here.
The main key points of the report are as follows:
The UK is to have a Universal Service Commitment of 2Mbps (2 Mega bits per second) by 2012, this [...]
The prime minister has appointed the inventor of the world wide web as the government’s adviser on information delivery.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee will lead a panel of experts to advise the relevant Cabinet Office minister on how government can best use the internet to make non-personal public data as widely available as possible. He will oversee [...]
Communications firms are being asked to record all internet contacts between people as part of a modernisation in UK police surveillance tactics.
The home secretary scrapped plans for a database but wants details to be held and organised for security services. The new system would track all e-mails, phone calls and internet use, including visits to [...]
Computer Shopper magazine has interviewed the UK Home Office about its relationship with the Internet Watch Foundation and discovered that the government doesn’t actually know what the IWF does, although it still plans to force UK ISPs to subscribe to the IWF’s blacklist. The main story makes for interesting reading, but the best bit is [...]
The much anticipated and talked about Digital Britain report has been published, and is available as a 1.5MB download from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
1. Universal Broadband for UK
The government has today confirmed plans for a digital Universal Service Commitment (USO), which aims to make broadband capable of “up to” 2Mbps available to [...]
The Times reports that Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant.
The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister [...]
