In the latest Orwellian move to restrict the rights of their citizens, the UK government has come to an agreement with the four largest Internet Service Providers to censor explicit contents on the ISP level. The standard – it is for the best of the children – argument has been made to justify the censorship [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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TalkTalk reprimanded over Malware trial
UK-based ISP TalkTalk, owned by the Carphone warehouse (Phone Warehouse in the EU) has been reprimanded by the Information Commissioner’s Office for failing to disclose enough information about a malware system it was launching, according to the BBC. The controversial system collected the URLs of websites visited by its customers and the ISP failed to [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Digital Economy Act is challenged in UK
The UKs leading Internet service providers, BT and TalkTalk are set to seek a judicial review of the controversial Digital Economy Act, as reported by the BBC. The two ISPs are reported to want the UK’s High Court to clarify the legality of the act prior to it coming into force. The act was one [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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British Telecom Phorm report leaked
An internal British Telecom document was released two days ago on the Wikileak website that provides the results of British Telecom’s validation of Phorm, also known as (aka 121Media), Deep Packet Inspection. According to that report 18000 users were chosen as test objects without their knowledge or consent. In that 2-week period more than 18 [...]