The Telegraph reports on new proposals tabled under the EU’s controversial ‘Stockholm Programme’ on justice and home affairs yesterday, which include proposals for a European ID card register, internet surveillance systems and automated EU exit-entry border systems operated by machines reading fingerprints.
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OpenEurope on 21st Apr 2010 (via openeurope.org.uk)
These are all internet problems and [internet users] think someone should do something about it. Although many internet users think the government should keep out of the internet, I suggest to you that most ordinary people who just use the internet like they use the banking system or the trains think that the government should make sure it all works properly for them and that bad things get stoppe...
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Samizdata on 20th Nov 2008 (via samizdata.net)
People who use the internet are three times more likely to be victims of credit and bank card fraud, a Home Office study has shown.
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Telegraph on 22nd Apr 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
This site provides free access to a report by the Pew Internet and American Life project which was published in April 2009. The 92 page report presents the results of a survey of the American electorate. Its findings contain information on the use of the Internet by American voters during the 2008 presidential election campaigns.Topics covered include the extent and nature of use of the Internet, ...
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Intute on 6th May 2009 (via intute.ac.uk)
Akamai Technologies has released the second edition of its quarterly "State of the Internet" report which provides insight into key Internet statistics such as origin of attack traffic, network outages and broadband connectivity levels across the globe.
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PublicTechnology on 18th Sep 2008 (via publictechnology.net)
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Tianya, Bandao and other websites have joined together to form the "Internet Media Alliance Against Public Relations" against the Internet Post Deletion companies which are usually know as the "Internet hatchetmen companies." The reason was the emergence of more and...
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BloodAndTreasure on 7th Feb 2010 (via bloodandtreasure.typepad.com)
Tomorrow afternoon (Thursday) MPs will, for the first time, have the opportunity to fully debate the issue of privacy and the internet - an astonishing thought given that more than 60% of the public use the internet every day. The...
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CentreRight on 27th Oct 2010 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
Well it's finally happened to me! Internet fraud has caught me in its web. My Credit card provider rang me this morning to query some "unusual activity" on my account. Skype phone credit transfers and several thousand pounds worth of purchases on line overseas. I assured them I have not been visiting India recently, nor buying large quantities of textiles there. They have stopped the card and...
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CllrStephenAllison on 24th Oct 2008 (via steveallison107.blogspot.com)
Andy Burnham Culture Secretary wants internet-service providers (ISPs) to offer parents "child-safe" web services, and says giving film-style ratings to individual websites is one of the options being considered. In other words the government is going to set up a registration and control system for internet publishers, in short this is ...
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Eurealist on 5th Jan 2009 (via eurealist.co.uk)
Andy Burnham Culture Secretary wants internet-service providers (ISPs) to offer parents "child-safe" web services, and says giving film-style ratings to individual websites is one of the options being considered. In other words the government is going to set up a registration and control system for internet publishers, in short this is ...
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Eurealist on 29th Dec 2008 (via eurealist.co.uk)
The Internet Services ProvidersÂ’ Association (ISPA) UK welcomes the Government's publication of the The Interim Digital Britain Report. This report demonstrates the commitment of the Government to working in cooperation with industry to maximise the potential of the Internet.
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PublicTechnology on 30th Jan 2009 (via publictechnology.net)