UK – Standard adopted for filtering tools
They have been working on this for a while. It will be interesting to see whether it leads into anything. It would be also interesting to see if serious over-blocking (as well as under-blocking) will…
April 2008
UK – IWF Annual Report highlights persistent core of child sexual abuse websites
IWF’s Annual Report 2007 is out… UK – IWF Annual Report highlights persistent core of child sexual abuse websites: “(IWF) The Internet Watch Foundation Annual Report 2007 reveals new intelligence regarding the scale of publicly…
CoE – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Latest issue of EDRI-gram is available now, and provides a good overview of recent developments at the Council of Europe level. CoE – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: “(EDRI-gram) The 9th meeting of…
Amendment of the Framework Decision on combating terrorism
I did report this in an earlier posting, but here is some further official information about the EU announcement. Amendment of the Framework Decision on combating terrorism: “(RAPID) The Council reached a common approach on…
Spy law ‘used in dog fouling war’
Seriously, for dog fouling? Is this what RIPA 2000 was developed for? Of course if a long list of public authorities are included within the law, they will make use of it for whatever crime…
File-sharing should not be a crime, says European Parliament
File-sharing should not be a crime, says European Parliament: “The European Parliament has said that copyright-infringing music and film file-sharing should not be criminalised. The Parliament has said that file-sharers should not be prosecuted as…
UK consumers lose £6.6 billion
UK consumers lose £6.6 billion: “British consumers are being cheated out of £6.6 billion a year by unfair treatment from business, with telecommunications and personal banking topping the list of problem areas, the Office of…
Privacy chief notified of 94 data breaches since HMRC debacle
Privacy chief notified of 94 data breaches since HMRC debacle: “The Information Commissioner has been notified of almost 100 data breaches by public and private sector organisations since the loss of 25 million people’s details…
Peers back data recklessness law
Peers back data recklessness law: “The government suffers a defeat over calls to make it an offence to ‘recklessly’ disclose people’s details.” (Via BBC News.)
Central e-crime unit waits for Home Office approval
Central e-crime unit waits for Home Office approval: “ Amber light Police hope the Home Office will approve plans to create a central e-crime unit in the UK. Ministers are yet to agree £1.3m in…