A fascinating morning at the Westminster eForum event on Network Neutrality today, following up on the recent Ofcom and EC consultations. It was pretty quickly agreed that the phrase “network neutrality” had such varied interpretations as to be almost useless. So instead the debate concentrated on the “open Internet”: what it is and what action [...]
For a while there has been one pair of contradictory answers to the question of whether an IP address was personal data. Two different German courts were asked about addresses in the log of a web server: one said that was personal data, the other said it wasn’t.
Now we seem to have another pair. A [...]
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has published its response to the consultation on how costs under the Digital Economy Act 2010 should be shared. These are the costs of ISPs’ systems and processes to receive and pass on Copyright Infringement Reports (CIRs), Ofcom’s costs in regulating the process, and the costs of the [...]