When IT Meets Politics
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How do we ensure that public online services are fit for a democratic society?
- Winsafe Ltd 23 Feb 2014 -
The fight against Surveillance Society claims its first victory - against NHS not NSA
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Feb 2014 -
The thefts from Tesco customers help illustrate the uselessness of Data Breach Notification
- Winsafe Ltd 14 Feb 2014
I wondered how many "Digital Leaders" would agree with all of the above principles and recommendations but put them into practice, partiucarly with to regard to ensuring that their data is not ...
Perhaps our most valuable ally is, however, market forces. The "pay-per-click" advertising bubble looks set to burst under the weight of fraud and we know that consumers who actively exercise ...
The EU is pressing ahead with a new Data Protection Directive and "Regulation", both fine-tuning approaches designed for the age of mainframes - as relevant to the privacy of the users of today as ...
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How do we make the Internet a Safer Place?
- Winsafe Ltd 12 Feb 2014 -
The irony of exposing state surveillance between 70th birthday of Colossus and Safer Internet Day
- Winsafe Ltd 11 Feb 2014 -
Ed Milliband adopts the first plank of my NRDP Manifesto
- Winsafe Ltd 10 Feb 2014 -
Is "know your customer" the on-line fraudsters' greatest ally?
- Winsafe Ltd 09 Feb 2014 -
Men fight over Bletchley Park: where women won the war.
- Winsafe Ltd 06 Feb 2014 -
Is investment in UK/EU Broadband (fixed and mobile) falling - and, if so, why?
- Winsafe Ltd 03 Feb 2014 -
Everyone is recording what we do over the Internet: why should the NSA and GCHQ be different?
- Winsafe Ltd 01 Feb 2014
I should add that I did some checking after the event and discovered that those who claim that age verification is too expensive and complex for widespread use are usually unaware of how cheap and ...
I suspect that, were a survey to be done, more of the population (not just parents and grandparents) would say that the security services were not doing enough surveillance and spending too much ...
"That we each own our personal information (from DNS and Biometrics to transaction profiles) and all who presume to collect, copy, collate or use that information owe us a duty of care."I look ...
Regulation should focus less on what is stored, (given the many requirements of consumer protection regulators and others to retain that which is not required for business purposes) and more on who ...
I hope their various accounts have been taped so that, when they are no longer available, more professional guides can give future generations a similar experience. I very much hope that Bletchley ...
I would also like to know why it is that the UK and EU are so unattractive for infrastructure investment on the part of those who are supposedly sitting on $hundreds of billions of cash reserves ...
"Everyone" is recording what you do on line, whether to fine tune their services, help their paying customers to sell to you or to defraud or abuse you or your family. All Edward Snowden has told ...
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European Commission welcomes US Presidential Remarks and Directive
- Winsafe Ltd 20 Jan 2014 -
Has President Obama just confirmed the status of the Internet as the US on-line Stasi State?
- Winsafe Ltd 18 Jan 2014 -
IPO Consults on Copyright on Orphan Works: a rather more important topic that it seems
- Winsafe Ltd 14 Jan 2014 -
The "rift" between Cabinet Office and DWP indicates that the new HMG IT Strategy is for real
- Winsafe Ltd 09 Jan 2014 -
Inputs to January 6th House of Commons Debate on Rural Broadband
- Winsafe Ltd 07 Jan 2014
Thanks to Edward Snowden we all know that whatever we do on-line is not only recorded (to enable the packet-switched, store-and-forward, Internet to work), but stored (often well beyond the time ...
We should remember that most of what we are commonly told about the Internet is not true. "They" not only know you are a dog, but which breed and what trees you pee against. Conversely, hardly ...
What is "a diligent search" for the copyright of that which has been posted on a website? How much is the license fee and to whom does it go? What happens if you discover later that it is your ...
Some are, of course, trying to have their cake and eat it. They have set up innovation teams looking at new ways of doing profitable business (e.g. providing item of service support for flexible ...
Since April BT have launched BT Sport which is advertised as being free to BT subscribers but which needs a download speed of 10MB which is at 20 times the slowest speed recorded in Hollingbourne ...