Tag archive for ‘media’
Microsoft demonstrates why DRM is bad for consumers
Microsoft have this week demonstrated the dangers of buying into DRM-crippled systems by announcing that their unloved software PlaysForSure (oh the irony) will be switched off on 31 August. After this date, content encumbered by the system will still play, but it will become locked to a single computer or device. You will no longer [...]
Primary school “paedophile” prompts cyber-bullying panic
The Guardian is reporting that pupils as young as 10 in Padstow, Cornwall, may have been posing as paedophiles online in order to bully their peers. “Police initially believed a local man was trying to groom the children by befriending them online and arranging to meet them.” The subsequent discovery that it was probably just [...]
UK Government loses massive database: 1000 cries of “we told you so” ring forth
Dear Alun Michael MP, This week we learnt that HM Revenue and Customs finally misplaced the 25 million database records they’ve been trying so hard to lose all year through negligence and gross misconduct. I am shocked, but not surprised, at the revelation that the Government has put millions of people at risk of fraud. [...]
Why I love the Open Rights Group
The Open Rights Group (ORG) is nominally two years old, and to mark the occasion, they have published a report (pdf) into their activities to date. Others have commented liberally on the organisation’s remarkable success over the past 24 months. I want to add my voice in congratulation and say a few words about what [...]
Should you worry about Wi-Fi ‘health risks’ to children?
Are your children being harmed at school because invisible Wi-Fi radiation is frying their brains? It’s an arresting question, and media outlets as large as the Independent and the BBC have been asking it in recent weeks, however the answer is “no they’re not”. Here’s why: Wi-Fi transmissions are hundreds of times lower than the [...]