John Shemilt (Imperial College) and I had an interesting and, I think, productive informal meeting with the Digital Economy Bill Team yesterday. We were able to provide them with a lot of evidence of the scale of the JANET and the policies and measures that we and connected sites take to deal seriously and effectively [...]
The Digital Economy Bill has been taking up a lot of my time since the start of the new year and I’m pleased to report one result. The Bill gives the Secretary of State powers to intervene in the operations of a DNS registry where a serious failure of the registry is likely to affect [...]
I’ve been reminded that section 62 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, passed last November, created a new offence of possessing non-photographic images of children that are pornographic and fall into one of a number of sexual categories. When the section is brought into force such images will be classed in the same way [...]
The Article 29 Working Party is the group of all the national data protection regulators in Europe, who jointly publish opinions and commentary on law and practice in the area of data protection. Their response to the Commission’s consultation on modernising the Data Protection Directive has now been published.
They make recommendations in four areas, at [...]