I was invited to give a talk on the Digital Economy Act 2010 to JANET’s South-East Regional User Group earlier this week. For a bit of variety I based this one around the history of the Act. Existing civil legal mechanisms didn’t provide an effective way to deal with a very large number of copyright [...]
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) have written a briefing paper for Ofcom on some of the different models by which Internet access can be provided to everything from houses and businesses to hotel chains and care homes and the issues that these raise for the definitions in the Digital Economy Act 2010.
I’ve contributed sections on [...]
Incident response, as performed by CERTs, CSIRTs and other related acronyms, is an essential part of keeping the Internet habitable, however it raises some interesting data protection issues. In most data protection scenarios, you know in advance what people and what information you are going to be processing, so you can give them prior notice, [...]