An Occasionally Asked Question (an OAQ?) is “are IP addresses personal data?”. That question is probably too broad to ever get a simple answer, but a recent decision by the Irish High Court (EMI Records & Others v Eircom Ltd [2010] IEHC 108) has at least answered the related question “are logs indexed by IP [...]
I’ve been having a look at what the first stage of the Digital Economy Act 2010 will require of qualifying ISPs and comparing it with what JANET already requires of the universities and colleges that connect to the network. And I can’t see that the Act would add anything to our existing measures against copyright [...]
My postings on the Digital Economy Act are concentrating mostly on the issues for the education sector, so I’m pleased to see that the CMA has just published a paper looking at the implications for businesses.
I was invited to present to the UK Network Operators’ Forum today on the implications of the Digital Economy Act for Network Operators. I’d been warned that it was a highly technical audience, so I was pleasantly surprised how many people were already aware of the legislation.
Of course, if you turn a group of smart [...]