Tag Archives: House of Lords

An amendment to the currently under debate, Digital Economy Bill, has made it so that by 2020 service providers in the UK will need to deliver a minimum of 30Mbps download speeds to customers. This represents a large increase from the original proposition of just 10Mbps downspeeds. The Digital Economy …

The Digital Economy Bill (DEB) has a lot of people worried, driving many to take up VPN subscriptions to try and give them the privacy that the bill would strip away. It looks like the matter may become ever more complicated though, as the government looks to pass the buck, …

Considering politicians and public figures prefer to lambaste piracy as a hateful crime more often than not, it's rare to hear those in any form of office decrying copyright trolling. That's exactly what happened in the House of Lords this week though, where Ralph Palmer took a swipe at several companies …

The House of Lords EU Committee wants to see more restrictions placed on the use of drones in the UK, with users forced to register their ownership. This would include both commercial and personal uses of the technology, which is counter to American legislation which recently gave the thumbs up …

Was the European Justice Court's decision to force Google to process right to be forgotten requests unreasonable? According to the House of Lords here in the UK the ruling is both “unreasonable” and “unworkable”. The lords made this argument in the EU Data Committee report on Data Protection law and …