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Jimmy Wales Has Invited Claire Perry to Dinner
Aug 13, 2013Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has invited Claire Perry, the Devizes MP who is Prime Minister David Cameron's 'advisor on childhood' to dinner - so that he can tell her how wrong her plan for internet web filtering is. Perry is the driving ...
Tags: Jimmy Wales, Porn Filter
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To See What Facebook Has Become, Look No Further Than The Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer
Apr 7, 2013To see what Facebook has become, look no further than the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer. Sometime last year, people began sharing tongue-in-cheek online reviews of the banana-shaped piece of yellow plastic with their Facebook friends. Then ...
Tags: Facebook, social network
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Jimmy Wales Has Attacked The Government's Communications Data Bill
Dec 28, 2012Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has attacked the government's Communications Data Bill, labelling it a state "snooper's charter", and stating that Wikipedia will encrypt all connections with the UK if the plans to track internet, email and ...
Tags: Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, UK, Communications Data Bill, government
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Wikipedia Was out of Action Again on Monday,out of Protest,as It Has Been in The Past
Dec 21, 2012Wikipedia was out of action again on Monday, but not intentionally, out of protest, as it has been in the past. This time, the user-generated online encyclopaedia was knocked offline because two fibre cables connecting its datacentres in ...
Tags: Wikipedia, online encyclopaedia, offline, fibre cable
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Communications Data Bill Represents a Huge Invasion of Privacy
Nov 1, 2012MPs have told Home Secretary Theresa May that the Communications Data Bill represents a huge invasion of privacy that could be exploited by criminals. May appeared in front of the Commons Select Committee scrutinising the controversial ...
Tags: MPs, Home Secretary, Communications Data Bill, Data security
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6% of UK Citizens Think Govt. Makes a Clear Argument for Draft Data Communications Bill
Oct 31, 2012Only 6%of UK citizens think the government has made a clear and compelling argument for the Draft Data Communications Bill,a survey has revealed. In contrast,71%of more than 1,800 adults polled said they do not trust that the data will be ...
Tags: draft Data Communications Bill, survey, online services, legislation
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Draft Data Communications Bill,Aimed at Authorities to Spy on Electronic Communications
Oct 17, 2012The UK’s Draft Data Communications Bill – aimed at making it easier for authorities to spy on electronic communications – will be ineffective against terror, says the Information Commissioner’s Office. Information ...
Tags: Draft Communications Bill, electronic communications, Wales, encrypt
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Home Secretary Theresa May Has Issued a Statement
Oct 16, 2012Home secretary Theresa May has issued a statement, which has effectively blocked the extradition of hacker Gary McKinnon. In September, May told Parliament that the coalition agreement committing the government to reviewing the UK's ...
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Prospect of Encryption Renders Data Bill Redundant
Oct 12, 2012The UK's Draft Data Communications Bill–aimed at making it easier for authorities to spy on electronic communications–will be useless and quite dangerous if enacted,says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. "It will force many ...
Tags: UK, Draft Data Communications Bill, electronic communications
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UK Has Fewer Internet Freedoms Than Seven Other Countries
Sep 27, 2012The UK has fewer internet freedoms than seven other countries, including Estonia and the Philippines, according to a report by Washington-based NGO Freedom House. The ranking is based on digital freedoms, such as access to the internet ...
Tags: internet freedoms, NGO, digital freedoms, Draft Data
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Police Across Europe Could Soon Find Themselves Monitoring Facebook,Google and Twitter
Sep 24, 2012Police across Europe could soon find themselves monitoring Facebook,Google and Twitter for content related to terrorism. A leaked report about a"Clean IT"initiative by the European Union(EU)revealed the plan for police officers ...
Tags: EU, monitor web, police, Wikipedia
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US Collects Data on Its Citizens, According to Former NSA Official Bill Binney
Sep 17, 2012The US is collecting huge amounts of data on its citizens, according to former National Security Agency (NSA) official Bill Binney. While at the NSA, Binney led the development of secret software he now believes is being used to carry out ...
Tags: NSA, Bill Binney, secret software, illegal data
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Big Data and Intelligence-Driven Security Are to Be The Focus of The RSA Conference Europe
Sep 12, 2012Big data and intelligence-driven security are to be the focus of the RSA Conference Europe 2012 in London next month. Three of the keynote sessions are related to these topics and they are represented in just about every time slot of the ...
Tags: Big data and intelligence-driven security, RSA Conference Europe 2012
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Jimmy Wales Said Wikipedia Would Encrypt All Its Connections to The UK
Sep 6, 2012Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has slammed as"technologically incompetent"the Draft Data Communications Bill,which will make it easier for security and police services to spy on e-mails,phone calls and internet activity of UK citizens. ...
Tags: Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, slams draft communications data bill, ISPs
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O'Dwyer Faces up to Ten Years in Prison for Creating a Website
Jul 6, 2012Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has called for a meeting with home secretary Theresa May after an unprecedented response to his online campaign to block UK student Richard O'Dwyer's extradition to the US. O'Dwyer faces up to ten years in ...
Tags: Wikipedia Founder, Jimmy Wales, home secretary, Theresa May, O'Dwyer