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Public 'left Out' As Governments Plot Internet Regulation
News Dyson -- a founder chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- told a debate in London that the United Nations is taking the wrong approach to Internet regulation. Dyson also argued that it was a mistake to...
[September 24, 2004, 16:45]
Ofcom Warns On Tighter Internet Regulation
News The Internet could face tougher regulation unless the industry does a better job of sorting out pressing issues, the deputy chairman of Ofcom said on Thursday night. We will do our very best to ensure there is fair and effective competition in...
[February 20, 2004, 7:40]
Public 'left Out' As Governments Plot Internet Regulation
Talkback Is the Internet going to be another Tower Of Babel? I believe that ICANN is for IPv4, and WGIG-- more precisely ITU--is for IPv6.
[September 24, 2004, 18:26]
How Norway Is Tackling Internet Regulation
News SAFT, which stands for Safety Awareness Facts and Tools, is something of an experiment in Internet self-regulation and comes as European national governments and the commission itself are weighing whether additional laws are necessary.
[November 7, 2003, 13:55]
VoIP Lobby Group Formed Over 999 Issue
News A new lobby group has been set up in an attempt to influence the regulation of internet telephony in Europe. If we automatically subject this new technology to legacy telephone regulation, consumers and business users could miss out on the new...
[December 17, 2007, 15:40]
Yahoo Calls For 'effective' Cybercrime Laws
News Pembrooke advocated a combination of legislation and self regulation of Internet businesses in order to combat cybercrime. Yahoo on Thursday called for "effective" legislation combined with industry self regulation, to deal with online fraud, child...
[March 31, 2006, 15:35]
Brum Residents To Have Say In Net Regulation
News The ITC (Independent Television Commission) is to consult 200 Birmingham residents over its potential role in regulation of Internet content. The commission will use the views of the Birmingham Citizen's Forum to determine whether it should carry...
[September 30, 1999, 10:43]
Election 2001: Tory Manifesto Embraces Freedom Of The Net
News The Conservative party is proposing a laissez-faire approach towards regulating the Internet space, in contradiction with Labour's controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) which gives police and other authorities the power to...
[May 22, 2001, 12:46]
Oftel Changes Role, Will Keep Pressure On BT
News Telecoms watchdog Oftel published its new approach to regulation Tuesday, promising to maintain pressure on BT in the domestic telephone and Internet arenas, but generally proposing a more hands-off approach.
[January 18, 2000, 15:53]
Q&A: Australia's 'Luddite' IT Minister
News In this exclusive interview, ZDNet Australia spoke with Australia's controversial minister for IT and telecommunications, Richard Alston, who has been criticised in the high-tech industry for his policies on Internet regulation, junk email and...
[November 29, 2002, 10:19]
Policing The Web (or Not)
Blog One question that has always gnawed at me about the whole internet malarkey is the issue of content regulation. I asked Shaun Woodward MP, the minister for creative industries and tourism, whether he thought online content regulation would or could...
[April 23, 2007, 15:59]
VoIP Industry Fears Over-regulation
News Ofcom's upcoming VoIP regulation is being anxiously awaited by the internet telephony industry, many of whom worry that the regulator will be too heavy-handed. Consultation for the proposed regulation ended in May and the rules themselves were...
[November 17, 2006, 16:10]
Scrap Oftel, Regulate Web - Consumers Association
News However, the CA fall short of calling for new laws for the regulation of the Internet. Spokesperson Alan Stephens told ZDNet News that "the government should provide a framework to step in, in the last resort, but this shouldn't be necessary if the...
[August 14, 1997, 8:00]
Wiretapping May Cost ISPs £17m - Report
News Wiretapping the Internet -- in accordance with the government's controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill -- will cost Britain's 400 ISPs at least £17m in the first year, with the total cost to both ISPs and the government rising...
[April 26, 2000, 10:17]
Liberty Groups Blast Net Ratings Proposal
News Advocates of content rating are hoping a global framework for filtering out pornography, hate sites and other online material will be adopted as an alternative to government regulation. Nicholas Bohm, e-commerce adviser for Cyber-Rights, believes...
[September 9, 1999, 16:37]
New Surveillance Bill Comes Under Fire
News The government Thursday published the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill, branded "impossible" by Internet campaigners for its potential human rights conflicts. At the bill's publication he commented: "In my view the provisions of the...
[February 10, 2000, 16:27]
Panama Rejigs VoIP Tax
News Panama is set to introduce a tax that treats traditional and Internet phone calls the same way, a "technology agnostic" regulation that has had a mixed welcome from broadband phone providers. Last week, lawmakers in the Central American country...
[January 21, 2004, 15:20]
Online Fraud Used As Political Football
News The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill, which has passed through the House of Lords and is about to become law will give police the power to tap into Internet traffic at ISPs and control the use of encryption in the UK.
[July 19, 2000, 16:39]
UK Leads Charge Against EU Online Regulation
News The changes would extend regulation to cover a broad range of new and emerging audiovisual media services including Internet broadcasts. This increased scope could mean significant regulation of the Internet and stifle the growth of new media...
[April 19, 2006, 8:40]
E-envoy Tells Government To Lay Off The Net
News In his speech, Allan asks government to avoid heavy-handed regulation of the Internet. The government has come in for heavy criticism for its Internet snooping bill -- the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP)bill.
[June 28, 2000, 12:18]
