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Category Archives: Piracy
They’re taking over the internet!
There’s a big story going around at the moment: the UN’s trying to take over the internet, or some variant of that. It’s all based on the current ITU proposals at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) currently taking place … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Freedom of expression, google, government, Internet, Piracy, Privacy, Snoopers charter
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Will the government ‘get’ digital policy?
I had an interesting time at the ‘Seventh Annual Parliament and Internet Conference’ yesterday – and came away slightly less depressed than I expected to be. It seemed to me that there were chinks of light emerging amidst the usually … Continue reading
Posted in broadband, Copyright, Cyberlaw, Defamation, Digital Economy Act, Facebook, Identity, Parenting, Piracy, Privacy, surveillance
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Why does the government always get it wrong?
Why is digital policy so bad? The most recent pronouncement from the UK government – reinstating in an updated and worsened way the idea of near-universal surveillance of emails, texts, phone calls and web-browsing – is horrific in many ways … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Digital Economy Act, Piracy, Privacy
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Business and Privacy: Evidence and Assumptions?
I came across a couple of stories yesterday that at first glance appeared unconnected, dealing with difference aspects of the current privacy debates concerning the internet. One comes from one side of the Atlantic, the other from the other. One … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Digital Economy Act, Piracy, Privacy
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A tale of three conferences…
IT Law certainly seems to be flavour of the month. Even more particularly, it seems to be flavour of the next couple of days. Today and tomorrow there are three conferences on different aspects of the subject, all of which … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Creative Commons, Human Rights, Piracy, SCL
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Every which way to lose your data…
The ACS ‘data leak’ story that’s been emerging fairly dramatically over the last couple of days has got pretty much everything you could hope for in this kind of story: a bit of porn, a bit of piracy, some hacking, … Continue reading
Posted in data protection, Piracy, Privacy, Vulnerability
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