Showing posts with label Internet Watch Foundation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet Watch Foundation. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Site Blocking: What the UK Government would prefer you not to see

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It's well known that internet blocking is easy to circumvent. Ofcom in today's report "Site Blocking" to reduce online cop...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

Newzbin2: Did BT shoot itself in the foot - and will Irish ISPs do the same?

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Yesterday's decision in Twentieth Century Fox v. BT (PDF) introduces mandatory web blocking for the first time in the UK and unsurprisi...
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Home Office terrorist material reporting site - some thoughts

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The Home Office launched a new Directgov site last week, which "provides members of the public with information about what they can d...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

UK Government abandons plans for mandatory web filtering

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Just over a month ago the Independent on Sunday reported that: The Home Office is drawing up plans for what, in effect, would be the first ...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

apComms come out for worldwide IWF system; against mandatory internet filtering

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apComms - the influential UK All Party Parliamentary Communications Group - have now issued the Report from their inquiry "Can we kee...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Digital Britain and the Internet Watch Foundation

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The long awaited Digital Britain Report (pdf) has stirred up a great deal of comment - particularly in relation to filesharing - though litt...
Friday, May 01, 2009

IWF Annual Report: Wikipedia blocking and more

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The Internet Watch Foundation has just issued its 2008 Annual Report (PDF) where it offers this defence of its role in the Wikipedia blocki...
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Monday, December 22, 2008

Some thoughts on the IWF / Wikipedia debacle

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One of the highest profile internet stories of December came when the Internet Watch Foundation placed a Wikipedia page on its black list o...
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Monday, December 08, 2008

Internet Watch Foundation blocks Wikipedia

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The internet - and more significantly the mainstream media - is abuzz with the news that the hitherto low profile Internet Watch Foundation ...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

An overview of ISP Voluntary / Mandatory Filtering

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Irene Graham of Electronic Frontiers Australia has compiled an invaluable overview of ISP level filtering systems as part of the EFA campa...