The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee have published their fifth report today, which makes a variety of recommendations to legislators, the police, businesses and citizens to improve personal security on the internet. The full report is now available to download.
Much of this morning’s media coverage is focussing on recommendations to create a dedicated [...]

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The European Union’s plan to regulate the net as if it were TV - Television Without Frontiers - picked up a lot of attention in blogs this week, after the Times covered it.
The basic idea is flawed - TV involves handing a monopoly over spectrum to organisations, so regulating how they use it makes [...]

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So I’m here at the Parliament and the Internet Conference, which is being held at Portcullis House and which has been put together by the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG). There are some 200 delegates here, and the day looks like a very intensive examination of a whole number of issues around the internet.
The [...]

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The European Commission have launched a consultation titled “Content Online”. Topics that are asked about include DRM, network neutrality, privacy online, lack of interoperability, protection of public interests, competitiveness, P2P and piracy. Input to this consultation will help shape a Commission Communication on Content Online, due to be adopted at the end of the year. [...]

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We have seen attempts to add more legislation to voice over IP in America so I guess it was only a matter of time.
“The Guardian has learned that police and security agencies have been lobbying ministers and senior officials, expressing fears about the potential for voice-over-internet-protocol technologies to hide a caller’s identity. Their aim? To [...]

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Wow, but sitting in Oxford University’s Examination Halls is intimidating. I’m here for Professor Jonathan Zittrain’s inaugural lecture, entitled Internet Governance and Regulation: The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It.
The Lecture
Has a ‘nerd-like joy’ in what the technology offers. One pair of concepts that are evolving because of the internet [...]

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