Category: Regulation

With the recent jailing of a twitter user who mocked footballer Fabrice Muamba the Governments top legal adviser has spoken out, saying that existing laws are sufficient to police social media.

The Queen's Speech as expected has outlined a new Communications Bill that would expand on current legislation to encompass social media.

18 complaints over line rental price appearing in the small print have been upheld against Virgin Media.

Virgin Media is back in front of the headmaster again.

The recent inquiry and talk of consultation on child protection in the UK, is not solely driven by the UK Government, there are strategies emerging from the EU that are driving the processes.

Many have said that if sites are blocked, and tracking of individuals engaged in infringing file sharing increases that people will adopt systems to obscure their identity, and a Swedish University suggests that this is happening in the under 25 age group.

In February the English High Court ruled that the Pirate Bay was encouraging infringement of copyright, now the six largest providers have just weeks to block the web site.

The Digital Economy act has been around since the last weeks of the previous Labour Government, and now it looks like that letter writing campaign to try and reduce copyright infringement may not start until 2014 at very least.

It may not be a fast read at 385 pages long, but it does represent a snapshot of what different companies and people think of the UK's Best in Europe stance for broadband.

Chi Onwurah the Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne has questioned Ed Vaizey over the chances that BT may will all of the eight BDUK projects that are in the procurement phase.