Today marks the day when a consultation into how adult website censorship in the UK should be handled has been launched.
It is feared that children are exposed to inappropriate material on the web on a regular basis and with an increasing rate via Google searches, pop ups or malicious websites.
The UK Government’s Department for Education, which launched the process, has proposed three choices: automatic block, an active choice (opt-in for filtering during sign up) and a so-called active choice plus (default filtering with an ability to opt out at…
Edita Lozovska - 28 June 2012 | comments. Read more
You might remember that major UK broadband providers, BT Retail as well as TalkTalk have been refused a Judicial Review of the DEA – also known as the Digital Economy Act, however the setback did not prevent the ISPs from appealing, a process they have begun moments ago today.
To refresh your memory, if the DEA gets the green light, it will allow disconnecting users who are allegedly downloading/uploading content from the internet illegally, a burden which will fall on UK ISP’s chests – to their inconvenience.
Last April Justice Parker…
Edita Lozovska - 17 January 2012 | comments. Read more
It seems this week Broadbandwatcher will have a nice dodgy-sounding story to share.
Ralli, a solicitors firm, has today confirmed that it forced Golden Eye International to drop its London Patents County Court case against a user who shared adult video content via her broadband connection.
Last year, Golden Eye International sent some sweet speculative invoicing to pay up £700 to the accused woman, as she shared an adult film (later revealed to be Fancy an Indian?) online, which is considered to be piracy or illegal file-sharing. Golden Eye International also…
Geoff Slaughter - 6 January 2012 | comments. Read more
It seems that TalkTalk and BT have a good chance to win a Judicial Review of the Digital Economy Act (also known as the DEA) this time around, at least according to the judge who permitted the two ISPs to appeal last month.
As a quick reminder, according to the controversial act, all internet copyright infringement facilitating websites should be banned and blocked. The Act expects that such a move would lessen the amount of illegal downloads and piracy.
Needless to say that ISPs are not too happy about this, as…
Edita Lozovska - 1 November 2011 | comments. Read more
Do you spend too much time trolling and leaving anonymous comments on the internet? Then this might be not great news for you, but it certainly is for the rest of the planet.
It seems that ISPA (Internet Service Providers Association) is fully supportive of a new report issued by the Joint Parliamentary Committee regarding certain updates to the current Libel Law.
Needless to say what the association is mostly concerned about is what rules and regulations will the Defamation Bill incorporate when it comes to the written word online.
One might…
Edita Lozovska - 20 October 2011 | comments. Read more
It seems justice is being served these days as the UK Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has reportedly fined and suspended two lawyers from solicitors firm Davenport Lyons for sending out threatening letters to broadband subscribers knowing the latter did not engage in any illegal activities (such as downloading or file sharing) online.
Brian Laurence Miller and David Joel Gore both have committed professional misconduct according to the SDT and will have to pay up a fine of £20,000 and are banned from practicing law for three months.
In addition, they were…
Edita Lozovska - 3 August 2011 | comments. Read more
Entanet, a communications and networking provider has today announced it was quite concerned about the UK Government’s scheme to extend its internet data retention legislation to eavesdrop on more than just users’ emails and website accesses.
In more detail, at the moment in accordance to a voluntary code, broadband providers do scribble down a general list of roughly a year’s worth of their customers’ emails and web logs.
The data however excludes any details beyond this such as the actual content of communications.
However, the UK Government is now going to look…
Chris Mizon - 21 July 2011 | comments. Read more
Although the solicitors firm is long gone – the news still circulates as the tech town wants to know Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA)’s Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) decision with regards to Andrew Crossley.
As a quick reminder, ACS:Law led by Crossley, was sending out threatening letters to alleged unlawful downloaders asking them to pay up for the damages caused.
According to SRA, Crossley behaved “without integrity” and took “unfair advantage” when he “bullied” broadband users and demanded substantial settlement payments while providing them with not entirely reliable evidence such as IP…
Edita Lozovska - 14 July 2011 | comments. Read more
It seems that Andrew Crossley (former boss of ACS:Law UK) has escaped the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fine of £800 as last May the London High Court has officially declared him bankrupt.
This happened shortly after the company leaked 6,000 personal customer data entries from broadband providers such as Plusnet and Sky Broadband because of a faulty IT security system with all the blame directed towards Crossley.
It has been added that as a standard the ICO could demand a “monetary penalty of £200,000″ for this type of breach, however…
Edita Lozovska - 7 July 2011 | comments. Read more
An array of US authorities started to investigate Google in order to establish whether the search giant was making it increasingly hard for competitors to climb up the ladder with the company’s search advertising option.
A source said that more than three state attorney generals have commenced the investigations on the issue in the US.
While the source could not reveal more information about the matter, as it was in its early stages, he confirmed that the attorney generals of California, Ohio and New York we all on the case.
It was…
Chris Mizon - 24 June 2011 | comments. Read more
