Dominique Lazanski is Head of Digital Policy at the TaxPayers' Alliance. Yesterday, Ofcom released its guidance on net neutrality for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the UK. Ofcom will be taking a wait-and-see approach to any possible regulation and encourages customer education on the subject. This is a big win for ISPs, content providers, UKplc and the […]
Dominique Lazanski is Technology Policy Analyst at the TaxPayers' Alliance. Yesterday, amendments to the EU’s e-Privacy Directive came into force. The e-Privacy Directive was created in the early 2000s to address the issues of privacy and data protection. The amendments, made in 2009, reflect changes in technology. It is the change to the law around […]
Dominique Lazanski is Technology Policy Analyst at the TaxPayers' Alliance. Yesterday, Claire Perry MP wrote an article for the Telegraph on her campaign to protect children online. Since late last year, Ms. Perry has advocated more online protection for children under the age of 18 who may just be accessing and looking at porn. Ms. […]
By Dominique Lazanski, Senior Fellow, Technology Policy at Big Brother Watch and a Policy Analyst at the TaxPayers’ Alliance. The Sunday Times reports (£) today that Ed Vaizey plans to meet with all major internet service providers (ISPs) next month in order to secure plans for blocking pornography at the source. Instead of parents and […]
Dominique Lazanski is Head of Digital Policy at the TaxPayers' Alliance. David Cameron is putting his full support behind the Independent Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection (pdf) that proposes an opt-in mechanism for viewing pornography. Essentially there will be filtering of legal pornography unless a user requests otherwise. It is no surprise that I support all of the […]