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When IT Meets Politics
Discussing the intersection between politics and the information society.
February 2016
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Needed - facts about broadband: What "facts" do we really need?
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Feb 2016 -
C Plan - A Plan For Consent‐Based, Confidential, Online Age Verification
- Winsafe Ltd 16 Feb 2016 -
An idea whose time has come: robust on-line age-checking - and not just for access to pornography
- Winsafe Ltd 16 Feb 2016
What is most interesting is that the BT shareholders may well be biggest beneficiaries - because it can then focus on working amicably with those councils where it can provide the best solution ...
The need is therefore to agree standards that support processes, products and services that not only meet current and foreseeable regulatory requirements but exceed these and enable any weaknesses ...
But many retailers, faced with prospect of massive fines in the event of a data breach wish only to confirm the customer is above or below the age claimed, with no access to the school, health, ...
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Watch the DCMS Select Committee creeping dissection of the BT copper bound monopoly
- Winsafe Ltd 13 Feb 2016 -
Investigatory Powers versus Fighting Fraud Together and the Skills for Both
- Winsafe Ltd 11 Feb 2016 -
How do we ensure digital apprenticeships are fit for purpose?
- Winsafe Ltd 08 Feb 2016 -
Who is winning the Broadband war? BT, Sky, Virgin or the Altnets
- Winsafe Ltd 02 Feb 2016 -
Is Government willing to pay for a surveillance regime that is fit for purpose?
- Winsafe Ltd 01 Feb 2016
This helps explain why BT is resisting attempts by property developers to go "fibre only" and is trying to ensure the inclusion of mandatory "copper compatibility" in the proposed new DCMS "open ...
the debate over investigatory powers can become so silo'd between competing groups of "experts" and miss the wider issues of facilitating co-operation to help secure the on-line world against a ...
At a meeting of the Digital Policy Alliance 21st Century Skills Group last week ... representatives from FE and the IT industry agreed to work together to put flesh on the analysis ... More ...
I was not able to find figures for Virgin, but where "pure fibre" is on offer it appears that players like Gigaclear and Hyperoptic are giving customers a significantly cheaper service and thus ...
The recommendation of the Committee (page 32) that "The Government should reconsider its reluctance for including in the Bill an explicit commitment that Government will pay the full cost incurred ...