United Kingdom
ONI Blog: UK: Plan to Monitor Internet Communication
In an effort to “modernize” police tactics and surveillance, UK’s home secretary has called for the implementation of a system that records internet contact between users, according to BBC News.
This comes in the wake of Britain’s ruling out...
- Posted on 07/May/2009; tagged in United Kingdom, Europe, Surveillance, Conflict and security filtering, Internet tools filtering
ONI Blog: UK: Evaluating Internet Content Regulations
According to the BBC, the UK government is evaluating a number of new Internet safeguards to protect children from content perceived as harmful or offensive.
The UK’s Culture Secretary Andy Burnham, who is spearheading the initiative calling for film-style age...
- Posted on 30/Dec/2008; tagged in United Kingdom, Europe, Non-filtering content restrictions, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Internet tools filtering
ONI Blog: IWF Removes Wikipedia Blacklisting in UK
Shortly after we blogged about the blocking of the Wikipedia page for heavy metal band Scorpions' album "Virgin Killer," it was announced that the England-based Internet Watch Foundation had removed the Wikipedia page from their child pornography watchlist.
An unfortunate side-effect...
ONI Blog: UK Blocks Access to Wikipedia Entry on Controversial Scorpions Album
On Monday, December 8, it was reported that a number of UK Internet service providers have decided to block access to a controversial Wikipedia entry showing an image of a naked girl. The ISPs acted after online watchdog the Internet...
- Posted on 09/Dec/2008; tagged in United Kingdom, Europe, Obscenity, Social filtering, Overblocking
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