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US bill would treat all hackers as terrorists
News Among other provisions, the bill would allow the US government to use information illegally collected by foreign governments against American citizens and would give law enforcers broader powers for monitoring electronic communications.
[September 27, 2001, 14:52]
BT chases SMEs with triple-play comms
News This] simplifies things by reducing the number of suppliers they have to manage," said Bill Murphy, managing director of BT Business. OnePlan is paid through one aggregated bill and it offers some discounted pricing compared with Business Plan...
[October 9, 2006, 16:55]
New information commissioner named
News France had been opposed to a voluntary code of practice contained within the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Bill that makes sweeping provisions for the retention of communications data by public communications providers for later access by law...
[July 26, 2002, 9:58]
Australia tables anti-spam law
News The Spam Bill 2003 will apply to spam that originates in Australia, and contains a flexible sanctions regime that includes warnings, infringement notices and court-awarded penalties. The legislation has won the endorsement of the Internet Industry...
[September 18, 2003, 10:40]
Jane Wakefield: Bullies, teenagers and Net giants
News On Thursday the government finished its final chapter of its e-communications book when it published its much feared Regulation of Investigatory Powers bill. But perhaps the most shocking aspect of the bill is the way the government has blatantly...
[February 14, 2000, 9:23]
US Report: Senate bill would lift bans on overseas crypto
News The bill also adds several new twists to the crypto debate by joining to it a parallel battle over wiretaps in the Federal Communications Commission. David Sobel, policy counsel at the Electronic Privacy Centre, said the bill offered encouragement...
[May 12, 1998, 11:51]
ZDNet UK News interviews e-Minister Patricia Hewitt
News While the e-communications bill has been tidied up and is now pretty acceptable to most people, the worries over police access to decryption keys hasn't gone away -- it has simply been shifted to the Home Office, under the guise of the RIP...
[February 18, 2000, 8:50]
Internet firms attack US broadband bill
News In a letter to Congress on Tuesday, the companies told Congressman Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, that his bill to revamp telecommunications laws "would fail to protect the Internet". This bill would allow for such a fundamental change in the...
[March 29, 2006, 16:00]
Information commissioner leaves post empty
News France had been opposed to a voluntary code of practice contained within the Bill, which makes sweeping provisions for the retention of communications data by public communications providers for later access by law enforcement agencies.
[October 8, 2002, 16:21]
Pub 'fined £8k' for Wi-Fi copyright infringement
News She also said the measures that would be brought in under the Digital Economy Bill — measures that could include disconnection of the account holder — would not apply because the business could be classified as a public communications service...
[November 27, 2009, 17:03]
Big Brother in the black box Pt II
News Director of Human Rights Online in Moscow, Sergei Smirnov, echoes Britain's concerns over the RIP Bill when he wades into Sorm's provisions: "The technology provides an effective mechanism to bypass a constitutionally required process of court...
[July 13, 2000, 9:58]
US Report: Commerce subcommittee passes 'CDA II'
News The Telecommunications Subcommittee of the House Committee on Commerce passed US Republican Mike Oxley's "Child Online Protection Act" on a voice vote Thursday without comment, clearing the way for the Ohio Republican's bill to be taken up by the...
[September 18, 1998, 9:50]
RIP: Government claims no mass surveillance
News The government moves to reassure ISPs that mass surveillance is not on the RIP agenda as the bill suffers another setback this week. It follows news that ISP Poptel intends to move abroad if the government's snooping bill becomes law, claiming that...
[July 10, 2000, 16:04]
Net neutrality: Meet the winner
News It's fair to say that Stevens is committed to moving a bill. One is you get a bill that covers an array of issues and has broad bipartisan support. If this becomes a bill that includes every issue that falls into the telecommunications space then...
[June 13, 2006, 10:45]
VoIP is no threat, says BT
Talkback VoIP has the ability to instantly transfer high call bill customers away from higher-cost embedded telco services like BT (where some 40% of their high call residential profit comes from just 2% of the customer base).
[November 30, 2004, 13:13]
Limiting encryption may open doors to criminals
News The danger in weakening encryption is that our infrastructure would become even less secure," said Bill Crowell, a former deputy director of the National Security Agency, the organisation charged with gathering electronic intelligence for the...
[September 27, 2001, 10:26]
File-swapping legal fight gathers steam
News One thing we would like to get out of this process is that if a bill is going to be passed, it's going to be clear. First it was the Hollings bill, then Induce, now the Copyright Office's bill. Let's say the recording industry wants the names of...
[September 3, 2004, 9:35]
Microsoft co-founder hits investment slump
News Investors follow Paul Allen the same way people might follow Bill Gates," said Tim McAdams, president of Pacific Online Trading in San Jose, California. If Bill Gates walks into a Denny's restaurant and orders a Grand Slam (breakfast), everyone in...
[May 13, 2002, 15:48]
EU lawmakers vote to introduce net neutrality
News The digital rights campaigning group La Quadrature du Net said in a statement on Wednesday that the voting through of the Telecoms Package, including amendment 138/46, was "the final blow against three-strikes laws such as Nicolas Sarkozy's Hadopi...
[May 6, 2009, 17:10]
US defence department reaches Wi-Fi pact
News The bill proposes opening up an additional 255MHz of contiguous spectrum in the 5GHz band. Now that this technical issue has been resolved, Congress should proceed to enact the Boxer-Allen bill," Boxer said in a statement released late Friday.
[February 3, 2003, 8:57]
