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Written by Peter Warren
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Barack Obama made an initial review of US cyber security, but pressure is growing for the president to take further action
Published guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 9 December 2009
Security officials are urging the US President to appoint a 'cyber tsar'
For the past month or so a curious game has been going on in the world of rumour and uncertainty that passes for the intelligence community. At the heart of it is an attempt to force the US president, Barack Obama, to put cyber security back to the top of his agenda and to usher in increased monitoring of the internet.
Despite an initial promise of action and a demand for a report on the risks to the US technology infrastructure to be on his desk in 60 days, little in policy terms has been heard since.
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Government
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Written by Peter Warren
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Published Thursday - July 6, 2006 - The Guardian
The EC has drafted new rules for TV transmitted over the internet. But,
asks Peter Warren, how do you police what is freely available at the
click of a mouse?
The European Commission and the UK are once again set on a collision
course. Forget constitutions, euros or Maastricht. This time it's about
something you care about: television, and particularly the future of TV
and new media over the internet. The complex row between the UK
government, the Confederation of British Industries (CBI), UK
technology companies and the EC revolves around the cheerily named "TV
Without Frontiers" directive. It's a proposed piece of European
legislation intended to bring television in line with recent changes in
technology.
The name might imply that it will remove frontiers from TV
viewing. But there's another side to the coin: the directive means that
anything that appears to be television and travels over the internet is
television, and therefore becomes subject to TV regulations.
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Government
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Written by Peter Warren
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Published Thursday July 6th, 2006 The Guardian
The biggest threat to the European Commission's plans to regulate media
on the internet is not from organisations like the CBI and OfCom; it is
from technology itself. Already devices such as Slingbox
[www.slingmedia.com/slingbox] and the software application Orb
[www.orb.com] will allow you to pick up TV and video from a home PC
equipped with a TV card on an internet-enabled device from anywhere in
the world - a nightmare for the regulatory authorities. And it gets
worse.
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Government
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Written by Peter Warren
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Bought and published in the Evening Standard
by Peter Warren and Michael Streeter
GOVERNMENT plans for an identity card could cost UK businesses a massive £3bn in hidden expenses.
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Government
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Written by Peter Warren
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Evening Standard 12/09/03
GORDON Brown is forming a 'Government within a Government' that
effectively gives the Chancellor overall control of most of Britain's
domestic policy.
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Government
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Written by Peter Warren
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The Chinese government's attitude to internet use encompasses shocking double standards on hacking and censorship.
Thursday January 26, 2006
The Guardian - appeared under the headline 'A dengerous domain'
The plundering of western technology, business and government databases
by Chinese hackers is a sign of Beijing's double standards towards the
development of the internet, experts say.
According to a spokesman at the Chinese embassy in London, hacking
is a crime punishable by death. But Peter Tippett, of CyberTrust, an
organisation that collects global information on the activities of
hacking groups, says that last year, the 80-strong X-Focus hacking
group was able to hold a conference in the Chinese capital. Called
X-Con, the conference discussed coordinating attacks on Japanese
websites during the row between the two countries over the content of
school history books in Japan.
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Government
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Written by Peter Warren
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Chancellor Gordon Brown is poised to launch a new breed of entrepreneur on the UK’s boardrooms.
Certain to be dubbed Brown’s Babes, the 33 hand-picked students from
Cambridge University have been carefully chosen by academics from
Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US to
take part in a unique exercise to import US entrepreneurship to the UK.
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Government
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Written by Peter Warren
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Bought and published by Scotland on Sunday, November 14, 1999
By Peter Warren
His car is big, massively exceeding the speed limit and furiously
flashing its lights as it looms up behind you but soon, if a speed
limiting device being tested by the Government is adopted, he could
just be a bad memory as what many would view as Big Brother takes over
your car.
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