The massive increase in data collection throughout the world has not led to responsible data storage laws. That is an imbalance that becomes obvious especially in one country these days. The UK is amassing heaps of data about their citizens for their fight against terrorism (and other causes) but is failing miserably over and over [...]

Categories: Security

The favorite country for funny tech stories has to be the United Kingdom. Government officials seem to lose confidential data all the time, be it in front of pubs or by selling it on eBay. Well, the next too good to be true story is that they spend 4.7 Billion British Pounds for new biometric [...]

Categories: Security

You might have heard the news that several UK Internet Providers are restricting to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia after the Internet Watch Foundation identified the Wikipedia page of the Scorpions album Virgin Killer as a “potentially indecent image of a child”. Listing the page on the watchlist had the effect that several Internet Service Providers [...]

Categories: The Web

Living in the United Kingdom has one major downside which became apparent in the last years. The government likes to collect all sorts of data about their citizens but seems incapable of securing that data. Laptops, USB sticks and other data sources get lost regularly and reveal important information about British citizens to its finders. [...]

Categories: Security

Living in the United Kingdom surely has its bright sides, you got the IT Crowd, Cider and James Bond. On the downside British government officials have been known for their lax data privacy behavior. More than one incident came to light where data of millions of British citizens landed in the wrong hands. James Bond [...]

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I just send a letter to your ISP telling them that you are sharing files. I did not have to prove my claims because I’m in high standing. Your Internet Service Provider is now sending a DCMA takedown notice / a warning letter / a three-strikes-and-you-are-out letter to the owner of the IP that has [...]

Categories: Music Industry, The Web

The United Kingdom is not coming to rest these days. One thought it could not get any worse after the agreement earlier this week between the British Government, six Internet provider and the British Music Industry which more or less forced the providers to send warning letters to their customers if they were suspected of [...]

Categories: Security

It was the big talk two month ago when British ISP Virgin Media send out it’s first warning letters to users they suspected to be sharing files online that they did not have the rights of. Yesterday the news hit the Internet websites that six major Internet Service Providers from the United Kingdom have agreed [...]

Categories: P2p