The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has today been ousted as the true source of Amendment 120A (Clause 18). The controversial 120A was rushed into the Digital Economy Bill (DEB) at the last minute, without sufficient debate or consultation, and could lead to mass internet censorship in the UK; websites such as YouTube are potentially at risk of being blocked.

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has confirmed that it is still assessing the prospect of opening a criminal case against BT following the operator’s secret trials of Phorm in 2006/2007. Phorm controversially worked with UK broadband ISPs ( BT , TalkTalk and Virgin Media ) to develop a system that would monitor what websites you viewed for use in targeted advertising campaigns, though many likened its service to Spyware.

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The Government has pledged "not [to] terminate the accounts of infringers" in its response to a small petition that called on the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to abandon Lord Mandelsons Digital Economy Bill plans to ban individuals from the Internet based on their use of "illegal" peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing via UK broadband ISPs. But all is not what it seems.

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It's reported that over 300 Orange UK subscribers have had their personal email addresses exposed after the operator sent a mass customer survey message via the CC field. Obviously they should have used the BCC field, which encrypts addresses, but failed to do that.

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Online security firm Websense has revealed the findings from its latest bi-annual research report, which looked at the state of Internet security for the last half of 2009. It found that 71% of websites with malicious code are legitimate sites that have been compromised and 85.8% of all emails were spam (junk).

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Matt Roburgh, a Security Expert working for broadband ISP TalkTalk UK, has exposed the dangers of weak wireless (Wi-Fi) network security to Channel 4 News (TV). As you'd expect from TalkTalk the interview is focused on how Wi-Fi hacking can lead to network owners being unfairly "suspected" of illegal file sharing (P2P) downloads.

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The UK Home Office, which last month missed a crucial European Commission (EC) deadline that required responses to several legal Internet and ISP privacy policy concerns, has finally written back to the EC. The government had originally been asked to respond by the end of December 2009 or face the prospect of further action.

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The European Commission (EC) is to cast a suspicious eye over controversial trials of Detica's new Deep Packet Inspect (DPI) technology (CView) by broadband Cable Modem ISP Virgin Media UK (original news). The system will effectively inspect a customer’s private online activity, apparently without their prior consent, so as to measure the level of copyright infringement (illegal file sharing) on VM's network.

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