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Internet au Royaume-Uni : silence, on filtre - 9 décembre 2014
Le Chaos Computer Club, le célèbre collectif de hacktivistes allemands, a affirmé, lundi 8 décembre, que son site Internet était inaccessible pour une partie des internautes britanniques. En cause, le filtrage par défaut mis en place par certains fournisseurs d’accès à Internet (FAI) du pays, dont le géant Vodafone.
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UK Piracy Blocklist Expands With YIFY, PrimeWire, Vodly and Others - 23 novembre 2013
Following a new High Court order six UK ISPs are now required to block access to YIFY-Torrents, PrimeWire, Vodly, WatchFreeMovies and Project Free TV. The blocks were requested by the movie industry and are part of an ongoing effort to make all popular "piracy" sites unavailable in the country. Since Internet (...)
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Mobile giants to profit from data they hold on millions of phone customers - 16 août 2013
Information on more than 17 million mobile phone customers will be used to sell advertising on the internet later this summer.
A venture set up by Vodafone, O2 and EE will look to profit from the data they have collected from customers by placing advertisements on behalf of multi-national corporations such as (...)
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Barclays to sell on data from savers and track mobile phones - 16 août 2013
Barclays Bank is to start selling data on its millions of current and savings account customers to other companies for the first time.
The bank has told savers that it intends to package together "information about the transactions on your account" with data on groups of other customers to compile reports on (...)
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My search for a smartphone that is not soaked in blood - 12 mars 2013
Phone companies do too little to ensure the minerals they use are conflict-free. Here’s what you can do to hold them to account
If you are too well connected, you stop thinking. The clamour, the immediacy, the tendency to absorb other people’s thoughts, interrupt the deep abstraction required to find your own way. (...)
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La justice britannique ordonne le blocage de trois sites de liens BitTorrent - 1er mars 2013
Outre-Manche, la justice britannique a de nouveau ordonné le blocage de trois sites de liens BitTorrent : Kat.ph, Fenopy et H33t. La décision rendue jeudi survient un peu moins d’un an après celle visant The Pirate Bay.
C’est une nouvelle victoire pour l’industrie du disque. Au Royaume-Uni, la justice vient d’ordonner (...)
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O2 owner Telefónica develops tech to analyse voice tone - 27 février 2013
Company says linguistic analysis engine will only be used with opt-in consent, but analysts warn that consumers will be wary
Telefónica, owner of the O2 network in the UK, is developing technology which listens in on personal calls to draw up a psychological profile of a speaker according to their tone of voice. (...)
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BitTorrent Site Admin Hits Out at UK Music Industry Site Blocking Demand - 25 février 2013
Within days the UK music industry will head back to the High Court with demands that the country’s leading Internet service providers should begin blocking three of the world’s largest torrent sites. Today, the owner of one of them describes the action as an attack on file-sharers and questions whether the process (...)
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Help wanted on O2 porn piracy cases - 17 novembre 2012
A digital rights group is seeking financial help to stop an adult film-maker contacting Britons suspected of pirating pornographic movies.
The Digital Rights Group has applied to intervene in a legal battle between O2 and Golden Eye International.
In 2011, Golden Eye started legal action to make O2 reveal the (...)
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More piracy sites faced with blocking as BPI contacts UK ISPs - 23 octobre 2012
The UK’s major internet service providers have been asked to block three more file-sharing websites, the BBC can reveal.
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), which acts on behalf of rights holders, wants ISPs to prevent access to Fenopy, H33t and Kickass Torrents.
The BPI alleges that the sites are illegally (...)
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Copyright holders call for unlawful downloading regime to cover 4G networks - 8 octobre 2012
Software and entertainment firms have called on Ofcom to expand the scope of a forthcoming anti-piracy regime to cover mobile operators, over fears that superfast 4G broadband networks will lead to growth in unlawful filesharing.
The regulator has drawn up an Initial Obligations Code, a set of rules designed to (...)
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Procédure en cours contre le téléchargement sauvage du porno en Grande-Bretagne - 27 juillet 2012
"L’ambiance promet d’être animée dans près de 3 000 foyers britanniques à la fin de l’été", annonce Le Point.fr, qui relaie une information de la BBC.
En cause : les 2 845 courriers que deux distributeurs anglais de films pornographiques s’apprêtent à envoyer, après accord d’un juge, à des internautes ayant téléchargé (...)
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More than 2,000 O2 ’porn pirates’ to be sent letters - 24 juillet 2012
More than 2,000 O2 customers will receive letters accusing them of illegally downloading porn films.
The firm behind the films - Ben Dover Productions - had originally applied to the High Court to pursue 9,000 cases on behalf of a range of copyright owners.
The judge threw out all claims apart from those (...)
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Mobile Internet censorship : what’s happening and what we can do about it - 11 juin 2012
This report is about mobile Internet censorship. It looks at the way mobile phone networks filter content for child protection purposes, and finds a number of problems with how these filtering systems work. (We also posted a short blog with more background and introduction)
The report is a joint publication with (...)
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O2 porn filesharers to be sent letters from film-maker - 31 mai 2012
O2 customers suspected of illegally sharing pornographic films made by Ben Dover Productions will begin receiving letters from the film-maker shortly.
The firm won a court order in March forcing O2 to pass on details of the owners of 9,124 IP addresses linked to illegal downloads.
The High Court has now approved (...)
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Sky blocks access to The Pirate Bay file-sharing site - 31 mai 2012
Sky Broadband has begun blocking access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.
It follows Virgin Media and Everything Everywhere which have already taken similar action.
The High Court had demanded the move after complaints by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) that TPB facilitated copyright infringement by (...)
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Sky joins in Pirate Bay blocking - 31 mai 2012
Sky has become the latest major broadband provider to block access to the Pirate Bay, one of the largest filesharing websites, which is accused of copyright infringement on a massive scale.
The firm’s nearly four million internet subscribers were cut off from The Pirate Bay on Wednesday, in response to a court (...)
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Début du blocage de The Pirate Bay en Inde - 7 mai 2012
Les autorités indiennes ont demandé le blocage du site The Pirate Bay, ainsi que d’autres annuaires de fichiers BitTorrent, rapporte Torrent Freak, vendredi 4 mai. Quand un internaute essaie de se connecter à ce site, il arrive sur un message indiquant que "le site a été bloqué, sous les instructions du Département des (...)
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The Pirate Bay sera bloqué au Royaume-Uni - 1er mai 2012
L’annuaire de liens de téléchargement BitTorrent sera bloqué par les principaux fournisseurs d’accès à Internet (FAI) du Royaume-Uni, a ordonné lundi 30 avril la Haute Cour de Londres. Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 et Virgin Media doivent procéder immédiatement au blocage ; British Telecom a demandé un délai (...)
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The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules - 1er mai 2012
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled.
The Swedish website hosts links to download mostly pirated free music and video.
Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media must all prevent their users from accessing the site.
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