March 1st 2015 – Home Office is pushing ahead with the IP Bill without needed national debate Despite three key Parliamentary committees demanding very significant changes to the draft IP Bill and calling for more time for a national debate can take place. The Home Office today published a largely identical draft Bill and...
Read more →The Internet Society has issued a statement following up on the CEO of Apple Inc, Tim Cook’s letter on FBI demand. Apple has millions of UK customers with the UK. With the UK Prime Minister having called for law enforcement to have no areas they cannot go and the debate and concern over the...
Read more →The founder and acknowledged “father” of the Internet in Europe and ISOC UK England participant Professor Peter Kirstein CBE was honoured with a Symposium and Fellowship by the prestigious Marconi Society in London Tuesday 25th October at the Royal Society. The Symposium produced by Peter Kirstein was on – “The Future Infrastructure of the Internet of Things”....
Read more →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...
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