I’ve sent in a Janet response to the EU’s consultation “A Clean and Open Internet: Procedures for notifying and acting on illegal content hosted by online intermediaries”. At the moment the E-Commerce Directive (transposed into UK law as the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002) says that websites aren’t liable for unlawful material (either criminal […]
I’ve made a Janet submission to the joint Parliamentary Committee considering the draft Communications Data Bill. It’s actually quite hard to predict what the effect of the Bill would be, as the Bill creates extremely wide powers for both the Home Secretary and Law Enforcement and the impact will depend on how those powers are […]
Ofcom’s 2010 report on “Site Blocking” to reduce online copyright infringement concluded that using IP addresses to block infringing sites “carries a significant risk of over-blocking given that it is common practice for multiple discrete sites to share a single IP address” (page 5). They have now published a report commissioned from CMSG that shows […]
I’m pleased to report that the Internet Society has published a discussion paper looking at different methods being proposed around the world to respond to the use of the Internet to breach Intellectual Property Rights. For each of the approaches – graduated response and suspension of access, traffic shaping, blocking, content identification and filtering, and […]
The Ministry of Justice have published a summary of the responses to their consultation on European Data Protection proposals. On the issues we raised around Internet Identifiers, Breach Notification and Cloud Computing there seems to be general agreement with our concerns. No one else seems to have mentioned Incident Response specifically, but there was a […]
The Government Data Service have published draft identity and privacy principles for federated access management (FAM) systems. It’s interesting to compare these with the approach that has been taken by Research and Education Federations to see whether we have identified the same issues and solutions. The first thing that caught my eye was that the authors seem […]
As the BBC are pointing out, there has been a lot to celebrate on Twitter recently. However there have also been quite a few instances of tweeters (the French refer to us/them as “twittos”) getting it badly wrong. We should all know that “email is like a postcard”, but sometimes it seems that “Twitter is […]