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Information about current issues, consultations and events.

1 Current Issues
2 Current Consultations
3 Forthcoming Events
4 Past Events
5 Related Pages

[edit] Current Issues

Digital Rights Issues: What's going on at the moment? What's coming up? Add your concerns and suggestions for action that can be taken.

Electronic Voting The Open Rights Group declared no confidence in the results for the May 2007 electronic voting pilots. We are observing the e-count for the London Elections in 2008
Intercept Modernisation Is the Government planning to store communications traffic data of all UK citizens in one giant database?
Discgate The lost data from HMRC and other government data losses.
DRM Defective By Design. Losing functionality you’ve always taken for granted.
IPRED2 Making IP infringement a crime rather than a civil offence.
Computer Misuse Act IT pros criminalised
RIP Act Part III UK Government Wants Private Encryption Keys return of the Crypto Wars.
Net Neutrality the clear separation between Internet access and Internet content.
Internet Censorship people do not want the government to censor the Internet for them.
Copyright Term Extension - With Gowers and Hugenholtz in our back-pocket, we're campaigning in both the UK and European Parliaments
Children's Digital Rights creating dossiers on children.
National Vehicle Tracking Database recording the movements of every vehicle on the road.
Trusted computing who should your computer take its orders from?
OpenDocument Did you ever receive a document you could not open?
Identity cards and Biometric passport.
Software Patents the divisive issue over whether to allow for the patenting of software.
DNA database.
Internet privacy.
Access to public sector data
RFID
TV Without Frontiers Directive Regulate TV on the Internet, Ofcom think it could affect podcasting.
BPI telling ISPs to freeze the accounts
Copyright Education in schools
UK Podcast Licence
WIPO Broadcast Treaty
NHS Care Records Service Centralising patients' medical records
Freedom of Information - changes to the regulations that would make it easier for FOI requests to be refused
Graduated response Rightsholders are pressuring governments to enact laws which make ISPs cut off the internet connections of suspected illicit filesharers

[edit] Current Consultations

These consultations are currently open. Please help us respond:

Consultation on legislative options to address illicit P2P file-sharing - This consultation is intended to set out and gather views on a proposal for a co-regulatory approach that could be adopted in order to facilitate and ensure co-operation between Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and rights holders to address the problem of illicit use of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing technology to exchange unlawful copies of copyright material. This takes forward Recommendation 39 of the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property which addressed the issue of illicit use of P2P. The consultation also identifies and seeks views on other potential options and calls for evidence on issues related to illicit use of P2P.

[edit] Forthcoming Events

There are no meetups planned in the near future - if you know of one, please add it.

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