The Home Office have concluded that a couple of aspects of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 need to be fixed in order to comply with European law, and are doing a rapid consultation on the changes. Unfortunately although the consultation document is clear about what the problems are it doesn’t give a clear [...]
An interesting talk at the GovCERT.nl Symposium by Michel van Eeten of Delft University. For some time, and in many countries, there have been suggestions that ISPs should be encouraged, perhaps by legislation, to do more to protect other internet users from their customers. Discussion has tended to focus on the possibility of using network [...]
The European Commission has published an overview report of the responses to its recent consultation on network neutrality.
It seems that respondents agreed that “traffic management is a necessary and essential part of the operation of an efficient internet” and that its use to address security and congestion issues is entirely legitimate. However there appears to [...]
The European Commission has published its response to last year’s consultation on revising European Data Protection legislation, in particular Directive 95/46/EC.
The response recognises the lack of clarity on the status of IP addresses – whether or not they are personal data – which has produced contradictory court rulings, however the general impression is that the [...]