The UK Parliament’s watchdog for the Security Services has delivered a firm rebuke to the Government on its draft Bill the Investigatory Powers Bill. Seeing it as a missed opportunity. The UK Chapter has engaged with ISC and on this topic more broadly for several years as the Government has struggled to bring surveillance...
Read more →Robin Wilton Prague 18th July 2015 writes Two MPs, David Davis (Conservative) and Tom Watson (Labour), with human rights advocacy group Liberty, have won a challenge in the High Court against the UK’s data retention law (DRIPA). The ruling finds against the UK law on several grounds, including incompatibility with the right to privacy,...
Read more →The Internet Society is inviting applications for its latest Internet Society Ambassadors to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). IGF Ambassadors will gain valuable insight and experience through their exposure to a range of stakeholders and discussions from numerous disciplines across the Internet ecosystem and benefit from their immersion into the IGF week of activities....
Read more →by Robin Wilton Technical Outreach Director – Identity and Privacy Internet Society 1 – The “privacy versus security” fallacy 2 – What factors shape the privacy landscape 3 – An ISOC Trust and Identity perspective 1 – The “privacy versus security” fallacy I’d like to start by quoting two remarks that were made at the...
Read more →The UK Internet Governance Forum 2015 Tuesday 16 June | 09:00 – 17:00 (Arrival from 08:30) Location: Chatham House | 10 St James’s Square | London | SW1Y 4LE The Agenda is here The main page for the event including breakout sessions can be viewed at http://ukigf.org.uk/events/ UK IGF 2015 Sessions were recorded...
Read more →For full Release see Internet Society Based on the information that we have to date, the Internet Society cannot agree to participate in or endorse the Coordination Council for the NETmundial Initiative. We are concerned that the way in which the NETmundial Initiative is being formed does not appear to be consistent with the...
Read more →Issues Matrix as itemised by ISOC for ITU can be downloaded in PDF format Sally Wentworth of ISOC writes from Busan, The Plenipot is just getting going and we’re still mostly in the ceremonial stage (plus lots of campaigning for elected positions). One thing that did happen yesterday was that the ITU members agreed...
Read more →The two-day NetMundial conference starts on Wednesday. Olivier Crepin-Leblond, & Desiree Miloshevic and several members are attending. Please make yourselves known to each other and post any comments or requests for input to our Policy list. The agenda for the meeting can be found here and a draft outcome document can be viewed here....
Read more →The ISOC UK England chapter held a debate in Parliament on 4th March in the Grimond Room Portcullis House, Parliament Three senior politicians Conservative, Labour and Liberal and renowned experts in Internet Standards, Technologies, Policy and Institutional development debated the need for oversight and new approaches to managing surveillance of the Intenet for the...
Read more →Dr. Tim Chown previewed the chapter’s new IPv6matrix.org website at the recent UKNOF meeting on 21st January in Manchester. The video of his presentation The slides The full UKNOF agenda The IPv6 Matrix project is linked here. Full News Release below The chapter unveiled the new IPv6 Matrix information resource for researchers to UK...
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