Published on
07/04/2009 at
9:42 AM. in
Technology.
Tags: central database, common measures, communication, council of the european union, criminal investigations, data retention, ec directive, government plans, government regulations, information, information transactions, Internet, internet privacy, internet service providers, internet telephony, ip telephony, shami chakrabarti.
Internet service providers are to keep records of emails and online phone calls under controversial new government regulations that come into force today.
ISPs will be legally obliged to store details of emails and internet telephony for 12 months as a potential tool to aid criminal investigations. Although the content of emails and calls will not be held, ISPs will be asked to record the date, time, duration and recipients of online communications.
The new regulations are contained in an EC directive on data retention that already applies to telecoms providers and is now being extended to ISPs.
The directive was conceived as a response to the London bombings of July 2005, following which the Council of the European Union highlighted “the need to adopt common measures on the retention of telecommunications data”.
“Knowing when someone sent an email or made an IP telephony call, and knowing who they emailed or called, is very revealing information – these regulations potentially put that information in the hands of a wide range of public bodies,” said Sam Parr, a lawyer specialising in communications at Baker & McKenzie.
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All i can seeing this do is to expose and give a greater risk to privacy of peoples information, transactions and giving rise to a bigger big brother style way of Governments. And in the long term a threat to all civil liberties and rights on the Internet as a whole.
Published on
08/09/2008 at
4:37 PM. in
Education, Personal, Technology and Website.
Tags: communication, Computers, Enviroment, information, Internet, intranet, job, learning, technicain, virtual, VLE, webmaster.
Started work now properly at Shavington High School, in my first proper week, and im enjoying it. As my job is a new postion things are taking there time to get sorted, for example, my own logons, my own set of keys etc. But its all good.
As part of my job i will be split between two jobs:
Webmaster – which will be done at the end of the day, updating the VLE (Virtual Learning Enviroment), which needs alot of work to get it upto a good standard, but it is mainly setting standards for each departments work and how the content goes on to the internet.
ICT Technician – this is my other role, which i will be doing for normally about two hours each day, which could be a host of things, general I.t things to changing pupils passwords.
I have loads and loads of work to be doing, then why am i on here then…
Well i have my dissertation to do which is creating a multimedia CD for the student development department within the University, its looking really promising an interesting 
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Music in Education, gotta make some lesson plans and documentation for either key stage 1, 2 or 3, I’ve chosen key stage 3 as this is GCSE level or well before GCSE level so much easier to think about vocabulary etc, i can use bigger words.
Website Engineering – managing a website, at the moment we are learning how to do this through windows its actually quite interesting now, at the start of term i hated it quite alot.
Multimedia – making a game with levels – not so fun enough said.
Well that’s about it better get on with doing work 
