Category: Security News

A new scheme by Internet Service Providers is getting under way where people who download  copyrighted material will get warning emails.

This has support from the UK government who highlight the negative effects on jobs and investment for the UK economy.

There’s more in the Telegraph today here.

Downloading copyrighted material is forbidden by the University Acceptable Use Policy, and besides, why would we want to lessen the opportunities for our creative media graduates?

There’s a lot in the press today about the UK government quickly making a new law requiring ISPs and phone companies to continue keep email and phone logs (not content) after the EU ruled to stop this. It may come as a surprise to some after the Snowdon disclosures that the government doesn’t do this anyway.

The politicians are saying this is necessary to protect against terrorism and serious crime but these things seem to have a habit of stretching larger than originally intended.

More here and here

Facebook is in the news this week for experimenting on its users. They manipulated news stories in peoples news feeds to see what the effects were on their posts. Perhaps not surprisingly, the posts reflected the manipulated news feeds positively or negatively. Various European regulatory authorities are looking into this.

More here

Microsoft (again) have announced they have improved the encryption for OneDrive and Outlook.com. This means that it’s harder to snoop on the data going to and from these services. MS recently spoke about their intentions to offer better protection against hackers and government snooping – which has got to be a good thing!

More here