Tag: government
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Taller masts needed For 5G? Can’t Get Planning? Make New Laws?
Taller masts needed? Rural communities desperately needing 5G? Possibly, we doubt it’s a desperate need though. In large cities 5G makes a lot of sense. There are more people in a smaller area for one thing. Many businesses can capitalise on the speed increase which will bounce on to the customers. There is also 5G…
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Mobile Phone Driving Penalties To Increase
Mobile phone users are being targeted by Government officials in a bid to increase stealth taxes, and of course, save lives. While Hands-Free should be enough for any sane person, Ministers believe phone companies also have a part to play to reduce this danger. According to The Guardian, ministers will be meeting with phone manufacturer…
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Torrent Downloaders Could Now Face Maximum Ten Year Sentence
The UK Government has just increased the maximum sentence for illegal downloaders from two to ten years imprisonment in a new copyright legislation bill. Online downloading and unauthorised sharing of movies, television and music is an offence the government now considers to be on par with full scale counterfeiting and therefore the sentencing for breaking…
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Apple Stands up to U.S Government to Protect iPhone User’s Privacy
Now I’m not an Apple product user myself, and honestly I’ve never bought into the hype. To each their own. That said, I, like many others this morning have been rather surprised/impressed by this honest statement to Apple customer’s by the company’s CEO Tim Cook which doubles as a ballsy comeback to the U.S Government…
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Wikileaks Publishes Sony Pictures Emails
Controversial website WikiLeaks has published the entire archive of hacked e-mails lifted from the inner workings of Sony Pictures. The website has claimed that the information held within the archive warrants the entire collection to be maintained and protected for the public to see. One of the reasons behind the enshrining of the hack’s contents…
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Vivendi Offers $272 Million for Dailymotion
There’s always a healthy crop of underdog services online – be it for social media, shopping or video streaming. In those first two categories Facebook and Amazon reign supreme, whilst in the video sector dozens of sites compete with YouTube for recognition. One such underdog streaming site is Dailymotion, a French video streaming website that’s…
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Find Out If GCHQ Spied On You Here
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After a ruling earlier this month saw GCHQ getting called out for their newly deemed illegal spying actions, the activist group partially responsible for the ruling, Privacy International, has invited the average internet user to get involved querying the spying agency about whether they have been spied on. Right now if you’re willing to hand…
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US Govt. Debuts New ‘Cyber Threat’ Agency
People are pretty annoyed at America right now due to intrusive spying undertaken online by security agencies from the country, so it’s only slightly less annoying that a new announcement from the Obama administration says that yet another group is to be set up to ‘defend’ the US from people online. The new group, called…
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Twitter Reports New Raise In Data Requests
Ever since 2012, microblogging social media site twitter has been releasing transparency reports on how many requests governments and law enforcement agencies have made to the site in order to obtain data on users posting on the social network. the reports have been going up and up for a while now, as social media is…
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UK Govt. Proposing IP Tracking Laws
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Here in the UK the subject of internet legislation is back on the menu in parliament – with home secretary Theresa May proposing a new law which might lead internet service providers to be required to hand over details of the IP addresses being used to cause trouble online. The new law could mean that…
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Govt. Data Requests To Facebook Rise
Another chapter in the landmark debate of ‘privacy vs. national security’ is unfolding as we speak – as Facebook have reported a massive spike in government interest in the information stored on their servers. It’s completely legal and proper for a government, in countries such as the UK or US, to request information from Facebook…