Invitation to join the UnBias project stakeholder panel ISOC UK participants interested in the increasing role of algorithms in mediating access to information are invited to join the UnBias project stakeholder panel. The UnBias project aims to develop recommendations for the regulation, design and education related to the role of algorithms in mediating...
Read more →ISOC England is partnering with the UK Chapter of the International Institute of Communications (IIC) to organise a discussion to look at how best policymakers should approach privacy and security on the Internet, considering the increasing ‘convergence’ between these two areas, especially when it comes to the Internet. Join our speakers to discuss these...
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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...
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