My main concern with any kind of legislation regarding internet monitoring and privacy issues is that they are decided without full understanding of the technologies and people involved. There is simply not enough debate about it. The fact that this has been rushed through the troubles me greatly but is not at all surprising regardless [...]

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Is internet privacy giving way to internet security? There is an inherent paradox with security and privacy issues surrounding the internet. They seem to be unable to work in harmony even though their definitions are exclusive of each other. Could this be due to pressures from the music and film industries with regard to file? [...]

If the creator of the web itself, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, says he will change his ISP if they start to monitor his web activity then we are in a sorry state of affairs. In interview with the BBC he said “consumers need to be protected against systems which can track their activity on the internet” [...]

I have just completed my contextual studies essay! I wrote about the peer-to-peer network and how the government has no idea what they are doing with regard to trying to shut down illegal file sharing. I left out the illegal part mostly and focused on comparing the monitoring of data to the tapping of phones [...]

The following is an essay I wrote as a polemic as part of a Contextual Studies elective. Peer To Peer is an internet distribution network allowing users to share content without using dedicated servers or utilizing bandwidth. The users share information directly with each other using a centralised ‘tracker’ which directs the relevant information to [...]

I just read this article which says that ISPs have shot down the governement’s plans to have them block or rigorously monitor a subscriber’s data. “surveillance and privacy laws explicitly forbid ISPs to inspect the contents of data…” “P2P technology is legally utilised in a number of commercial services including [the] BBC…” I am very [...]