The Chief Executive of OFCOM, Ed Richards, gave evidence to the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee last week, in which he reported on progress on the copyright enforcement and web blocking parts of the Digital Economy Act 2010.
He first confirmed that the Initial Obligations Code was completed and passed to the Government [...]
The Information Commissioner has published his guidance on complying with new European cookie law, and the news is less good than had been hoped. Although the simplest way for a website to obtain users’ consent to installing cookies would be to rely on them having set appropriate cookie preferences in their browsers – indeed the [...]
I’m pleased to report that the Internet Society has published a discussion paper looking at different methods being proposed around the world to respond to the use of the Internet to breach Intellectual Property Rights. For each of the approaches – graduated response and suspension of access, traffic shaping, blocking, content identification and filtering, and [...]
Chris Pounder has pointed out that the Director of Public Prosecutions has apparently joined privacy lawyers in suggesting that ten years’ conventional wisdom (and guidance from the Information Commissioner) may have been wrong on when an e-mail stops being “in transmission” and therefore covered by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA). The Act [...]