Archive: online safety
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Jul 28, 2011
4 CommentsBT ordered to block Newzbin2 – The dangerous precedent
This morning, the High Court has ruled that BT must block Newzbin2, a website which it claims assists in copyright infringement, following a request by the Motion Picture Association. To many, this decision may seem obvious as it seeks to protect intellectual property and the suggestion is that the site in question was set up...
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May 10, 2011
1 CommentIs TalkTalk’s filtering service the answer to parental controls?
TalkTalk yesterday launched a network-level security service which is designed in particular to help parents protect their children from harmful content on the Internet such as viruses. Unlike anti-virus or parental control software on individual machines, this tool protects anyone using the same Internet connection, and thus helps to block inappropriate content even if it’s...