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Lot’s of people, it would seem, search for “World TV Downloads” in order to get hold of toolbars and software which will allow them to watch live tv over the internet. Quite often, people look for these World TV Downloads in order to watch premium content, such as major sporting events, or TV shows. The [...]

The World’s Greatest Blog has been raising concerns for some time regarding the privacy infringements potentially being committed by Phorm and its clients; BT, Talk Talk and Virgin broadband.  It seems now that the EU is the only body capable of  defending UK citizen’s right to privacy. UK privacy law is so broadly drawn, its [...]

Today is “Safer Internet Day 2009″ according to the Internet Watch Foundation. The day is organised by the European Commission and Insafe, the European network of e-safety awareness nodes. It focuses on risks to children online. Anyone who saw Watchdog last night will know that Ebay has changed its policy on the sale of knives [...]

Following our recent opinion pieces on Phorm, it has come to our attention that on Thursday 10th April, the company posted losses of $32.8 million (£16.6 million) which the it insisted were part of planned investments in infrastructure, people and technology. Last year, Phorm made a loss of $11.6 million -yet somehow they have raised [...]

Following our piece on the campaign against Phorm software proposals, I e-mailed my local MP, William Hague, asking him to represent my views to the relevant authorities. A speedy response appeared in the post, direct from the House of Commons. Here is the text of the letter: Dear Ms Haywood, Thankyou for your email received [...]

BT, Talk Talk and Virgin are all signed up to use Phorm -which reads the websites visited by customers and then targets adverts to them based on the content of those sites. The information which appears on your screen as you browse will be accessible by your ISP -this is almost exactly the same modus [...]

There has been much made of Facebook’s irresponsibility towards the privacy and control of individual’s data over the last couple of months, the main gripe being that it is nigh on impossible to have your account and information permanently deleted. Part of this is due to Facebook having failed to register as a Data Controller [...]

The Guardian thinks it has a scoop by revealing that people have hacked the iPlayer so that the 30 day time limit on downloads ceases to work, giving people unlimited access to downloads. However, scratch below the surface and you will realise that this happens to every single download with a “trial period” or time [...]

Having witnessed some fairly poor value broadband offers during our year in Australia, it is nice to note the positive impact that competition has had in the UK when it comes to buying in broadband services. This week, I have installed broadband in two similar properties using one of the major players in each houshold [...]

We are pleased to announce a partnership with Secure Tec Australasia Pty Ltd – the providers of ZoneAlarm internet security software – which allows us to resell their excellent range of protective antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall software. I personally use the ZoneAlarm Security Suite, and find it to be an excellent way to protect my [...]