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TalkTalk Rises Awareness in WiFi Safety
Honoring the invitation from Channel 4 News to participate in a broadcast, security expert Matt Roburgh, member of the team behind Internet service provider TalkTalk, seized the opportunity to educate the public on WiFi safety and the threat posed by WiFi hacking. Roburgh directed the discussion towards the limitations of today’s network safety solutions and hackers’ ability to constantly reinvent their methods of tackling existing security measures. Admitting he had also been a victim of WiFi hacking, the expert explained that although protection of WiFi connections with passwords is highly recommendable, this measure alone might not always be enough to block hacking attempts.
Continue reading »How MPAA Failed to Cut Off the Alleged File Sharing Grandma
MPAA have not succeeded in their attempt to ban Cathi Paradiso, the grandmother falsely accused of illegal-file sharing, from accessing the Internet. Following the efforts of the News.com team, MPAA’s plans against Cathi Paradiso, who was hazardously accused multiple times of copyright infringement based on disputable evidence, were finally impeded. Under the pretext of the “three strikes” concept, the MPAA were determined to force the prosecution of Cathi Paradiso in order to set an example aimed at discouraging illegal file sharing.
Continue reading »Hadopi three strikes law hits another hurdle
Data protection agency says ‘Non’ The controversial French ‘three strikes’ law has hit yet another delay – it has failed to win approval from the French data protection agency.…
Continue reading »Brief: France three strikes law delayed by govt’s own data watchdog
France’s “three strikes” law threatening Internet disconnections for repeat copyright infringers should have been in effect by now, but it hasn’t yet become law due to one French privacy agency. The country’s Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) was created in the late 1970s in order to vet new legislation for privacy concerns, and to keep an eye on government databases and data collection efforts. CNIL’s somewhat dramatic motto is “information technology must respect the human identity, the human rights, privacy and liberties”—and CNIL is not yet convinced that the new three strikes law will do that.
Continue reading »World’s first ‘net freedom provision’
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- British and French plans to institute the Draconian Three strikes plan drawn up by Big Music and Hollywood to have net users disconnected purely on the say-so of the cartels have met a setback. European legislators have given the green light to new rules which decree users’ can still be cut off, but only after a “prior, fair and impartial procedure” which gives them “the opportunity to state their case and respects the principles of presumption of innocence and the right to privacy” has been completed. However, an EU statement outlining the decision doesn’t say what the ‘fair and impartial procedure’ will comprise, or who will decide user rights have indeed been upheld, or by what means,.
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