Internet Society UK

Home Office push the IP Bill to avoid national debate

Post author By cdel
Post date March 2, 2016

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 a timetable that is clearly designed to stifle debate even within Parliament.

A number of participants in the Internet Society community are included in the signatories to a letter in The Telegraph today calling for a delay until 2017.

Tags privacy, security, Surveillance

News Policy

Encryption-backdoors-come-in-all-guises-reacting-to-apples-customer-letter

Post author By cdel
Post date February 18, 2016

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 draft Investigatory Powers Bill in the UK this debate in the US has huge significance for UK citizens.

UK expert Prof Ian Brown commented on what the FBI are really asking for on the BBC World Service

Internet Society statement: –

Have you ever lost your smartphone or had it stolen?… Read more ...

Tags encryption, privacy, security

Events News

Peter Kirstein CBE honoured with Fellowship by Marconi Society

Post author By cdel
Post date February 18, 2016

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”. The gathering discussing the Internet of Things and paying tribute to Peter included many of the Internet and networking world’s leading luminaries including Vint Cerf, Bob Khan, Paul Baran, Dame Wendy Hall, and many others.… Read more ...

News Policy

Intelligence & Security Committee – IP Bill is a significant missed opportunity.

Post author By cdel
Post date February 11, 2016

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 under stable and effective democratic controls.

This is the first major comment from the refreshed committee ‘s intentions to follow up on the work of the previous Parliament and marks a decisive opinion under the fresh leadership of its new chair Dominic Grieve.… Read more ...

News Policy

Two UK MPs challenge their own government in the High Court – and win.

Post author By cdel
Post date July 19, 2015

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, and a lack of clarity in the rules applying to access requests. Since the current rules allow a very wide range of public authorities to request communications data, and to do so without independent approval, there is a clear implication that the UK’s approach to data retention fails the proportionality test.… Read more ...

Tags DRIPA, ISOC UK England, privacy, Surveillance

Events News Policy

Invitation for ISOC Ambassadors to the Internet Governance Forum

Post author By cdel
Post date July 16, 2015

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.

The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) serves to bring people together from
various stakeholder groups as equals, in discussions on public policy
issues relating to the Internet. While there is no negotiated outcome,
the IGF informs and inspires those with policy-making power in both the
public and private sectors.… Read more ...

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